Written by Tracy Giles, Canada The ocean was still and flat like a scrying mirror with nothing to tell. The air was wantonly warm, tickling, tingling; and the sky was a deep swimming pool sapphire, unblemished by a single cloud. But there – a ripple, a break – the head of a seal, smooth, black-eyed […]

Written by Kate Hensher, Italy The hospital bed, oversized and incongruous amidst the junk shop finds of my mother’s, dominates her narrow living room (the irony of living, not lost). I don’t know how she does it. Even with this ugly piece of metal that lifts and lowers, and promises her comfort, she’s still squeezed […]

It’s easy to get stuck in a rut. To eat the same food. Watch the same television shows. Read the same books and magazines. YAWN. All writers have been there. But it will affect the quality of your writing. Why? Because you’re not living in the world of curiosity. There’s an unusual writing resource you […]