Sapphic stories and tantalising tales
Along with doing physio, getting my shoulder stronger, being at work, getting back my riding skills/strength/confidence, socialising (what seeing friends!), watering and weeding the garden, and attending my fab writing group, I've also been creating a new story.The new short story is about a mountain bike bike-packing trip, a cunning vampire, and a lesbian 'first… Continue reading Cunning vampires and sapphic sighs
A while back I fell in love with Kelly Reiherich's collage artwork. I'd been following her since her 'meat' image, which I think works so well on so many levels, but this collage image of the hand holding the heart flower really inspired me. I wrote this story to go with it. It's called The… Continue reading A Zine for you on Winter’s Solstice (Southern Hemisphere): The Blood Bloom
This is a retelling of the old Romany version of Cinderella. In this one the young woman has a magical mossy coat instead of a fairy godmother. She also has a mother who has strange ideas about parenting and how to deal with men. But at its heart it's still the same old sexist nonsense.… Continue reading Inventing our stories: Telling it the way it should be, not the way it was
Dane Divine: Storyteller 