Rethink how you relive the past with this prompt. — Prompt If memories could be stored in a physical space — what, or where, would it be? Development Memories are often captured in physical form: sun-blanched sepia photographs, ticket stubs, a slice of wedding cake in the back of the freezer, milk teeth reclaimed from the tooth fairy. Keepsakes, mementoes, souvenirs, relics…

Free Verse — Mother sounds the claxon: action stations. Father lights the remnant of her short fuse: preparing drinks; getting underfoot. The family falls in, sits to attention: hands crossed on thighs beneath a pressed cloth (knife-edge creases parallel to table edge – no tramlines). I feel a frisson as my new girlfriend returns the…

A free verse poem — Dear Father. God. Do you really exist? I asked Mum but she said you’re, “Just another bloke who wants to shaft us.” I don’t mean to be rude, sorry. It worries me though, ‘cos her cancer’s back again and I want her to go to heaven. Do people normally talk…

Explore what age means to you with this prompt — Prompt One man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages [William Shakespeare] How do we transition between the stages of our lives? What is the modern equivalent of the seven ages? When does someone become a teenager, middle-aged, or old? The seven ages In Jacques’ infamous ‘all the world’s a…