Shekina Rose Feb 274 minPrompt: ‘Truth’ #300DaysOfFlashWritingTRIGGER WARNING: sex abuse / grooming / emotional abuse Two days before my 32nd Birthday I read My Dark Vanessa. I start reading it at...
Shekina Rose Jan 16 min2021What 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, 20216 min300 Days of Flash Writing - THE CHALLENGEAs 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, 20213 minVisiting GrandmaShe 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, 20201 minIce Cream for EvelynToday 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, 20202 minIt'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, 20201 minBittersweetI'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...