In Our Own Write – September/October 2025

There were four of us meeting to present our version of “Should she (or he) go?” and it was gratifying that Margaret ,our newest member, hadn’t been scared off by meeting us last month.

With the level of bloodthirsty writing displayed by certain members you really don’t know what goes on in the minds of us innocent looking grey haired old ladies! It is certainly a shame that one of our members is too modest to enter a short story competition as her tale of a young lady in all likelihood about to meet a grisly death at the hands of a supposed benefactor was riveting.

We also had a young man who reluctantly went to Hollywood just as the Wall Street Crash happened and all work prospects dried up, apart from the offer to assassinate an obnoxious individual. With the help of an out of work actress acting as a decoy, he carried out the deed but was never caught.

Another was about a married woman fed up with her husband constantly traipsing mud through the kitchen, spontaneously taking an old flame up on the offer of meeting for lunch. She quickly realised that lunch was an ordeal never to be repeated and the solution to the problem of mud on her white kitchen floor was to simply  replace it with brown and grey Lino.

Lastly an inheritance meant that after nine years of marriage and coercive behaviour, a young woman finally had the courage and money to leave her husband and return to her native Canada.

Our next meeting is on the 13th October and the title is “Island”.

Travina White, Convenor