I picked up my clock. Three twenty.

Writing prompts this week courtesy of Maggie O’Farrell’s My Lover’s Lover – my book of the month reviewed in my September 2023 newsletter.

Keeping the child theme going, as this is the last week before the close of the local young people’s short story competition I’m involved in.

That parenting stage of exhaustion had set in. Two months after Daisy’s birth, he had returned to work, futilely hiding his glee at the daily escape. I understood. Adults might be just as irrational as babie...