Writing on Tangents
Choose a tangent to explore.
Each tale’s a chapter’s length, no more.
Still searching high and low?
You’ll find the latest tales below.
- Fiction: ‘The Wishing Star’
The night is still as the cool white stars blink above her and the sea laps against the hull of her boat. Each ripple glistens under the half-moon hanging in the sky. Gudrun sighs and begins pulling in her lines. Every line comes up bare, save for the sad looking bait which hangs limply from …
- Fiction: ‘Over the Hills and Far Away’
Dry twigs snap beneath his feet as he forces his way between the gnarled limbs of ancient trees. Dead leaves are rotting on the forest floor. He can smell them. Long slender tendrils of fungus emerge from the layer of humus, stretching up into the narrow beams of early morning light. The muscles in his …
- Fiction: ‘Lily Shaw’
I truly loved with all my heart but once. I believe that’s the only way we can ever be sure we have actually experienced love, when we feel something so strong, so over-powering, that it lingers across our entire lives. And when we look back, no matter how happy we are now, we only wonder …
Now a little about me,
In case you’re curious to see…
I wonder if there’s a word to describe those who love words…
Not just any words, but beautiful combinations of words. Ones that ingrain themselves in the very fibre of your being.
There’s a power in the stories we tell. These are our heritage. The tales we share with each other, pass down to our children and enshrine in our collective memory.
Let me introduce myself. My name is Kat, and I’m a storyteller.
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