I’m ready for a challenge. I’m at Spitalfields on a Sunday, one hour, two important items to find and a mulled wine appointment to keep. I touch everything at the handmade paper stall and try on short dresses. Wrapped in a Tibetan blanket, you have silk trimming across your chest and feathers decorating your fringe. [...]
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Day 43
Posted in Age: 31-40, Gender: Female, Location: Shop/Market, tagged city, conversations, creative writing, literature, london, market, One Hundred Days To Make Me A Better Person, ribbons, spitalfields, strangers, writing on December 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Day 39
Posted in Age: 21-30, Gender: Female, Location: Shop/Market, tagged bank fees, city, conversations, creative writing, literature, london, market, One Hundred Days To Make Me A Better Person, pressures of time, sandwiches, strangers, writing on December 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You speak of inconsequential things: petty cash, sandwiches and bank fees. I glance at the stall but am burdened the pressures of time and the wretched weather. I pick up a teacup and your eyes dart towards me. You could have asked! I apologise and, as atonement, I begin to order other items I have [...]
Day 37
Posted in Age: 51-60, Gender: Female, Location: Shop/Market, tagged city, compact, conversations, creative writing, gemma seltzer, grandma, literature, london, market, One Hundred Days To Make Me A Better Person, Paul O'Grady, strangers, wine, writing on December 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Both of you are drinking wine. The shop is dusty and lacy. I pick handkerchiefs out of a basket whilst you hear each other’s opinions on Paul O’Grady. He should have his own prime time show. The jokes he tells! I lean on the counter and talk about my grandma’s compact, how it smashed when [...]
Day 10
Posted in Age: 41-50, Gender: Female, Location: Shop/Market, tagged city, conversations, creative writing, gloves, literature, london, market, strangers, writing on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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