Stories And Poetry

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Welcome to these examples of my writing. They include competition winners and some as yet unpublished pieces that have evolved from writers' group challenges.

Left on the shelf? Not if Mary Bennet can help it!

An alternative ending to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice  “If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite at leisure.”    Attracted by the laughter emanating from their father’s library, the two young ladies in question were close by when Elizabeth left, closing the door softly behind her.    […]

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Armed with a battered copy of Jack Kerouac’s On The Road, Maggie Cobbett crossed the USA by Greyhound bus during the chaotic summer of 1968. The distances were vast, her budget minimal, and anything seemed possible. From camp counselling in the Catskills to bagels for breakfast in the Bronx, her first sojourn in the States had it all.
Supporting artists, or ‘extras’ as they’re more commonly known, are the unsung heroes of television and film. Maggie Cobbett recalls the ups and downs of twenty years of ‘blending into the background’.
A working holiday in France for so little? “It sounds too good to be true,” says Daisy’s mother, but her warning falls on deaf ears.
The 20th century has just dawned when David is apprenticed to a Yorkshire coal miner. But what of the younger brothers and sister he has been forced to leave behind in their London workhouse? Will he ever see them again?