I forget sometimes about this space. Well forget a lot as it’s now way into 2009 and I’ve last been here in September. I meant to write about lots of things – thoughts about how I’d experienced the film festival, seeing my film for the first time, the travels to Cornwall, the bar fight in Edinburgh. But instead I made them into a series of Facebook status changes.
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Photo by Becky Taylor; Story by Heather Taylor
Short Story : My Son
It was easier in those power ranger, transformer years. Days were about the school lessons he loved, games at recess, a birthday party. Tears came with knee scrapes and the one day he and his best friend fought over who would be Optimus Prime. A momentary cuddle would cure him, the wrong quickly forgotten by morning.
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Photo by Becky Taylor; Poetry by Heather Taylor
Poem : Winter Sky
A grey canopy protects hard earth
from the rush of sun, lets it sleep
6 months more before spring’s crude
conquering, shoots thrusting through soil
spreading across black dirt to choke it.
CBC Radio 2 is a changing…
Well I should actually say changed. CBC Radio 2 is known as being a classical music station. Now I can’t say I’ve ever listened to it. I’ll put my hands up in the air and admit that one. But then again I rarely, if ever, listen to the radio except for that year in college when I didn’t have a TV.
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Photo by Becky Taylor; Story by Heather Taylor
Short Story: Betsey
They called her Betsy – a white Chevy that took them from school to jobs to grocery shops when it was too cold to walk. In the summer, she’d be the car they crammed into; 6 siblings, 2 parents and a dog.
Read MoreHIS RIB – a new book I’m in!!
Penmanship Publishing Group, an independent New York-based and women-owned publishing house, today announced the release of an all-female authored anthology entitled HIS RIB: Stories, Poems & Essays by HER.
Read MoreStars in my eyes
Very exciting times in Chez Heather. Not only have I bought new frames so we can put pictures up on our walls (they are very bare at the moment) but I had some great news this week! I seem to tell others that I write films. Yes I write them but unfortunately it doesn’t mean they get made. BUT this has all changed!! My little film “The Night Before,” about two sisters, is going to be made!
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Photo by Sarah Taylor; Story by Heather Taylor
Short Story : Mirror Memory
Waiting for the night bus, Molly notices a girl searching the street for another pair of paying eyes or that car that slows down for her legs alone. It reminds Molly of that night in a club, her barely out of school, when a guy led her to the toilets.
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