Fiction

Jill has been quite prolific with her fiction, but has kept it mostly to herself!

Fiction Samples:

To catch a train

She wakes, sweating from an awful breathless dream – he must have pulled the blankets off her. The pillow feels cold and wet and she can hear a thrumming. Her head is pounding, her neck aches and her chest hurts - has she been lying awkwardly? Her eyes don’t want to open. They feel full of sand. Then she realises where she is. Draped over a railway line in the dead of night and there’s a train bearing down on her…

Dogged humour

We sip cool drinks from the bar and gaze out at the sparkling sea.

In the distance, a small shape is moving by the water. It comes away from the shore and up the beach. As it approaches, we can see it's someone's young dog. He's found a piece of driftwood. Light but unwieldy, it could be the end of a plank.

Prancing, obviously pleased with his find, the puppy sidles up to us - the wood clenched in his teeth. Grinning, eyes rolling, he dodges out of reach.