The Fictional Fifties

Blogger, writer & publisher

  • I’ve been stealing myself

    in that I know I’ve got to keep on writing…about what and whom is less clear… I studied film-making at University – well it was really a Polytechnic and I was the awkward girl who didn’t seem very awkward compared to the other students. In fact one of the technicians straight out asked me ‘What…

  • Knife in the Water

    I don’t tend to find current affairs very uplifting but I did find myself taking in that a super yacht has gone down off the coast of Sicily and that two bodies have been recovered. There followed a bland description of a rescue operation that couldn’t really have been less evocative (Radio 2 – I…

  • Magical realism – Firefly

    The divine heat haze of the day will soon ebb into the cool of a summer’s evening notwithstanding the bathroom towel rail still emitting a steady 45 degrees Celsius all the better to dry my new swim wear. Secondly these Sarfolk houses do maintain the damp rather too well and often need a good drying…

  • Chairman Mao

    Hello! Having moved it is time to orient my self to a different part of the same town. A new space to write in; a new hairdresser (maybe) and best of all my lovely new kitchen! And what is even better – a new url – the fictional fifties dot com. Since I started writing…

  • Hello world!

    This is my author website – ‘The Fictional Fifties’.

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