To swish something (a rejection slip perhaps) is to move it through the air, so that it makes a sound. Helpfully my dictionary describes the noise produced as 'a swishing sound'. You can also swish things away - horses swish tails to dissaude flies from bothering them, scythes can swish the long grass into neat rows of drying hay. Swish is also another term for something … Continue reading Wednesday word of the week – Swish
Author: patsy
Number one!
My little free short story collection, Not A Drop To Drink is currently an Amazon.uk 'bestseller' in the category for British and Irish anthologies! Strictly speaking it isn't an anthology, as I wrote all seven of the stories (anthologies are collections by various authors). I'm also not entirely sure you can describe something that's not … Continue reading Number one!
Wednesday word of the week – Magnaminous
To be magnanimous is to be nobly generous rather than petty in feelings or actions. Hmmm, I do try to behave with magnanimity, but sometimes I get annoyed and fail to react magnanimously. Do you like this word? It's a bit of a tongue mangler, isn't it? Decidedly tricky to illustrate too. Umm... Aha! If someone who'd annoyed me … Continue reading Wednesday word of the week – Magnaminous
True Romance
True Romance is the title of my short story in the current issue of Ireland's Own. I got the idea for this one whilst sitting in my local library, waiting for the rest of my book group to arrive. It's amazing how fast you can scribble down an idea when you know you're going to … Continue reading True Romance
Overdrive
If you're able to access Overdrive via your library membership, you can now read all my books for free. The ones with mauve bands at the top and bottom are single short stories - the others are novels or short story collections. The complete books should also be available through over services, such as Borrow … Continue reading Overdrive
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Wednesday word of the week – Tribulation
A tribulation is a great affliction or oppression, or the cause of that. The occupants of many abbeys suffered tribulations during the reformation ordered by Henry VIII. It's a good thing I looked it up before using it anywhere as I'd always imagined it meant a minor source of annoyance. Perhaps I was associating it with trivial? Did you … Continue reading Wednesday word of the week – Tribulation
Sisterly Unity
I don't have a sister, so had to use my imagination for parts of this story about sisterly relationships, which is in the current issue of Take A Break's Fiction Feast. There's quite a lot about cake too, so I was writing what I know there!
Wednesday word of the week – Rootle
To rootle is to dig with a snout, to poke about or search. Whilst you're doing it you're rootling and afterwards you'll have rootled. Somewhere I have a photo of pigs rootling, but when I rootled through my hard drive I got distracted, so here are some steps instead. Do you know where they are? Have you climbed them? What were you looking … Continue reading Wednesday word of the week – Rootle
BOO! Bargain BOOks!
All of my collections of slightly spooky stories are currently on sale for 99p (or 99c on the US).