Return to Porthfeddon at MuDJoB

A short story of mine - Return to Porthfeddon - is now up at the excellent MuDJoB site.

Edge: retribution [a Neolithic serial]

Not loudly said but always known:  in hungry times, when fish and corn and meat are scarce, new-borns are let to die, more so girl babies than the males.

Not widely known, and said to me but once by my then-mourning father, my survival tributed my mother, his first and favoured woman.   She died birthing what would have been his second son.   Similarly a second woman within the year but this third is stronger, sweeter-natured and has two moons still to go.    

Yet Yarl speaks less to her than me, watches more anxiously my brother, and consults most frequently the son my mother bore to a grey-haired man of lower rank ere Yarl came to this place. 

I’d fifteen darkest celebration times and never bled, but my rank, if such it could be said, was high for the holding in my head of family names and happenings, and what important and what known by my mother’s ancestors.   

 This began life as a to-be-entry for an Orcadian crime story competition,, for which I ran out of words, and time.   I am now converting it into six sentence episodes and posting it on 6S;  it is the fourth in a series which began two years ago on MuDJoB and subsequently became an illlustrated book.   The first past can be read at http://sandra-linesofcommunication.blogspot.co.uk/p/curve-of-early-learning.html

‘From battle and murder, and from sudden death’

I'm on MuDJoB this week with a story which failed to win me chocolate in Gita's Fiction challege ... 
http://mudjob.blogspot.mx/2012/11/sandra-davies.html

'Best laid plans'

An excerpt from what will be the follow-up to 'Not wanted on voyage' is currently up at Michael Brown's MuDJoB this week

MudSpots

From the MuDJoB stable - MudSpots is a weekly challenge of writing up to 250 words to a prompt.
This is week five and the topic was 'Needful Things - give yourself a treat and check it out

Woke to find myself at MuDJoB

Boasting - but it is something I am proud of! - 

have a look at my illustrated 'Circle of celebration' 

over on Michael Brown's wonderful MuDJoB

Write 1 Sub 1 - week 7 report

Subbed 6 altogether - another Hon.mention with Jo Prescott, 'Circle of Celebration (words AND pictures) to MuDJoB for April, 2 to PigeonBike for a Chapbook, one of which was rejected & the other pending, and a first for me, 'Bastard' to Lily Childs' Friday Prediction. River of Stones accepted 'My Grandmother's tablecloth' for their 'Book of Stones'. Bridie 5 had another 3500 words added and I proofed and pressed the 'publish' button on my NaNoWriMo novel so have 4 books available on Blurb, which feels very good indeed.

16/28

  
Pastels, pencils, graphite
in my studio

Listening to a CD of George Mackay Brown poetry

Later layered, to vivid, subtle, overlay
exclusion and difference

for MuDJoB's birthday