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Juliet West

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Juliet started writing fiction five years ago after her third child was born. She is a member of the Horsham Writers’ Circle and is currently studying for an MA in creative writing at Chichester University. This year she won first prize in a poetry competition run by Slipstream Poets, and a poem and a short story were highly commended in the New Writer magazine competition.

A Glow by Juliet West

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

The daffodils were spilled across the landing carpet and the window was wide open, letting in a blast of cold night air. The glass vase was rocking on the sill, horizontal, leaking its last drips of cloudy water.

I walked towards the window, an image flaring in my mind: your body crumpled on the patio, skull smashed, arms bent into crazy angles.

You wouldn’t…surely?

I looked down onto the slabs of York stone. In the darkness I could make out the iron bench. The watering can. The terracotta pot with the tulip shoots bursting through.

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