Prompt: ‘Truth’ #300DaysOfFlashWriting
TRIGGER WARNING: sex abuse / grooming / emotional abuse Two days before my 32nd Birthday I read My Dark Vanessa. I start reading it at...
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Shekina Rose
- Jan 1
- 6 min
2021
What a year. A year of loss, a year of gain, a year of choices and indecision, painful times, happier times. Lots to be grateful for....
Shekina Rose
- Aug 22, 2021
- 7 min
300 Days of Flash Writing - THE CHALLENGE
As Semester 1 of the second academic year looms upon us, I realise with uneasy panic that although I promised myself a summer of writing,...
Shekina Rose
- May 19, 2021
- 3 min
Visiting Grandma
She opens the door to me and I am startled, once again, by her appearance. It has only been a few months since I last saw her, but she is...
Shekina Rose
- Aug 20, 2020
- 1 min
Ice Cream for Evelyn
Today I experienced my 88-year-old, anti-ice cream campaigner nan eat an ice cream for the first time in my life. She took little...
Shekina Rose
- May 4, 2020
- 2 min
It's not all Zoom and gloom.
Zoom. Our new normal thing. The new word on the lips of society (along with 'furlough', 'lockdown' and 'social distancing'). It's hard to...
Shekina Rose
- Feb 1, 2020
- 1 min
Bittersweet
I've been thinking about my Grandad a lot lately; who he was, what he went through and what he would make of the world today. Bittersweet...