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short stories

  • Letters to Mother

    Spoiler! : This is part of an assignment on British Migration to New Zealand. It's a letter from a young woman in the 1840s writing from New Zealand to her ...

    • Short Story
    • Historical Fiction
    4 min read
  • Let's Just Say...

    The women sat by the kitchen fire, staring into the flickering flames, arms carefully wrapped around their helpless babes."Let's just say," Sarah began, wriggling in her too long dress, "that ...

    • Short Story
    11 min read


Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything. It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it’s a cactus.
— Enid Bagnold