Giffordtown Creative Writing Group

The group was created in January and we had the first submissions by the four inaugural members at the end of the month. The brief was anything creative on theme of 'New Start'. See the entries below, but go to the tab (to the left of the News) and you will see the dropdown GCWG. From there, you will see a PDF for each of the stories. Here's a few snippets to entice you. Comments and feedback always welcome.

Caution: Some of the entries contain adult themes and language.

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New Start

"He was fat, bald, and green. He was also dead. He was lying on a slab in the Dissecting room in Edinburgh University medical School along with nineteen of his fellow cadavers. It was October 1965 and after a year of Physics Chemistry and Biology I was about to become a 'proper' medical student..."

Doug Wightman.

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A Compositional Comment...

“It would look better with three of them.

Three or even five.

An odd number is best”,

My wife tells me !

I think I should let it rest.

Assuredly…

Jeff Erton

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Sausages and Mash

I was duly informed that there would be new rules for the household mealtime arrangements and that I will be responsible for making tea. After all, a new year, a new start. I set to work to plan my feast for the night. When my lovely lady returned home to see what I had done, she furrowed her brows and a dark look fell upon her normally sunny countenance...

Neil Brooks

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Anything Else

Fuck it.

‘A bottle of Lagavulin.’ Go on. You know you want to. ‘And twenty Benson and Hedges please, Annie.’

‘I didn’t know you smoked,’ Annie says, lifting a grey plastic flap that conceals the packs from view. Used to be a colourful backdrop to the counter. A cornucopia of colours vying for the customers’ attention. Buy me! No! Me! Now, a grey wall of little plastic flaps. Like a wall of drawers of a miniature morgue. Fucking depressing...

Charles Montague