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Love reading everyone's stories, this is such a fun platform. Getting back into writing after a long break - favourite animals - geese, cats & horses

Writings

Followers

Following

samatna

Love reading everyone's stories, this is such a fun platform. Getting back into writing after a long break - favourite animals - geese, cats & horses

Writings

Followers

Following

sanctuary

samatna

1 min read

It was on the shoreline, huge and dark until one of the braver ones went to investigate, flicking on his torch and setting off across the sand.

He disappeared into the monstrous shape as if he were swallowed by a whale. None of us talked we were afraid and on the run, only ever finding enemies and never friends.

We waited anxiously, could this be a shelter where we could rest awhile.

A figur...

You, Me, Him

samatna

1 min read

You and Me and Him

I did not choose this pain

I’m just clinging by my fingernails

Hoping that for once I can win...

Poetry

Directions

samatna

1 min read

Life is like a sharp stick you can point it in any direction and follow it’s line.

As I pass through the school gates for the last time I think about all the different paths that lie ahead and smile to myself because the choice is mine, the sun is shining and it seems as if the world is waiting for me.

I kick some pebbles on the pathway and trundle down to the train station, head home on the 4...

Lumbering

samatna

1 min read

Lumbering noisily through the undergrowth in their khaki, Shh’ one of the clumsy oafs hisses to the other one.

I watch unblinking from the barn roof as they stumble past.

‘Is it this where you saw him?’ One of them whispers. Poor deluded fools they think I can’t see them or hear them - seriously! I can detect a mouse in the grass do they for one second believe that I don’t know they are here. ...

The Burden Of Memory

samatna

1 min read

Why?

Why can’t I forget?

The days long gone

The words I regret...

Poetry

Confession

samatna

1 min read

We leaned up against the wall, and I had no idea what was coming next. Were you angry at me for finally confessing how I felt? Were you pitying me for daring to hope?

Or maybe, just maybe you felt the same.

You reached out and wrapped my hand in yours, I felt the bricks behind me and the sun in my face as we stood side by side in companiable silence.

I wanted to say more - to explain how it w...

Wings

samatna

1 min read

Some fairies get all the luck. I wanted to be a flower fairy gaily tra-la-laing all day long and flouncing about.

But you don’t get to choose and I’m stuck being the mischief fairy.

A lifetime of making supermarket trolly wheels wobbly, of putting red socks in your whites wash and the most tedious of all hiding your car keys in ‘the most obvious place’. You probably think you had checked there...

Help

samatna

1 min read

Everything was just the same as any other day.

As usual I ignored the alarm and nearly overslept, then half awake I stumbled out of bed and got dressed for work. It was on the bus that I began to suddenly realise that things were not the same - very much not the same.

On the seat in front of me was a lizardy thing all green and scaly. I went to scream for help but everyone else on the bus just...

Fondant Fancy Anyone?

samatna

1 min read

Some people are messy but I’m a planner, I check the list again.

Bunting

Table clothes with gold trim

Best china

Invites to my nearest and dearest

Scones

Fondant fancies

Napkins

Finger sandwiches

Gluten free cake

Gluten free sandwiches

Vegan butter

Jam (three types)

Fruit kebabs, carefully prepared and refrigerated till the last minute

Alcoholic fruit jelly shots

Prosecco nicely chilled

Champa...

Alone

samatna

1 min read

Drip, drip drip

As rain rattles the tin

The cold enters my bones

My clothes are too thin

The stench of decay

Seeps into my soul

I huddle in the dark

Shivering out of control

The walls crumbled and broken

And a roof barely there

As night claims the light

I am left in despair...

Poetry