Because personal branding is hard when you're liminal. Apologies in advance; this has a lot of pictures. How do I want people to read me? Not my work, ME. What assumptions are they likely to make? What assumptions do I want them to make? What assumptions do I
Prompt from DailyPrompt.com Cleansing. That’s what it promised. “A cleansing scrub”. Refreshing foam. Gentle exfoliation. Secret super-modern science drawn from ancient wisdom formulated to revitalise your appearance. She left it unopened by the sink for a few days. The promises were always far sweeter than the reality. Reality
20250402 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com Birds circled overhead. Not just scavengers, either; there were pigeons, starlings, parakeets. (Once remarkable, now naturalised. Symbolic for so much of our changing world.) The flocks swirled and spiralled. Never touching. Leaving no part of the field without a feathering watching canopy. I turn my
20250401 Part 1 here. Susan gulped and floored it. Which didn’t do much; her loyal mini wasn’t built for speed. She cringed and kept as close to the side of the road as possible, the pack roaring past in a jostling charge which to her relief avoided her.
20250331 Prompt from DailyPrompt.com Susan had embraced an astounding variety of life experiences while running a public library. Particularly for fundraising. She’d learned to juggle, had a photoshoot with a snake, gone bungee jumping, been an officiant for a three-year-old’s divorce from a previously beloved video game