Emma from Bookish in Crickhowell gives us an insight into what’s good to read this month. Chris Cleave writes with elegance, humor, and passion about friendship, marriage, parenthood, tragedy, and redemption. Gold is the story of Zoe and Kate, world-class athletes who have been friends and rivals since their first day of Elite training. They’ve […]
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Category Archives: Literature
Green Like the Sea
By Cath Barton I freely admit that it was a blunder to describe that colour as dull. I realise that it was careless of me. I can see that it upset you Anna and I’m so sorry. It’s really a very nice green and it will look wonderful on you and it’s great that you’re […]
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Emma from Bookish in Crickhowell gives us an insight into what’s good to read this month The story follows Marco and Celia, pitted against each other since childhood. A game is initiated, where the rules are unclear and the winner can take decades to determine. Their arena? Cirque des Rêves. But the plot focuses on […]
Flash Fiction 2012
Regular readers of the Abergavenny Focus will know that over the past few months we have been running a Flash Fiction competition, which we organised together with Bookish and The Words Counts. Our Flash Fiction competition formed part of a national series of events, which took place to mark the first National Flash Fiction Day […]
Junk
And the final story has been written by myself. As editor of the Abergavenny Focus, I couldn’t help getting in on the Flash Fiction action too! By Hannah Hill She straightened the net curtains, the yellowing hem catching on the dust-clad objects that lined the sill. A thimble, decorated with a red fox […]
How it All Began
The following Flash Fiction is very special as it was kindly written by Philip Schofield during our Flash Fiction Event. Philip put pen to paper as the evening’s events unfolded and came up with this. Enjoy! By Philip Schofield It is a little known fact that Flash Fiction originated in Abergavenny in middle of […]
As Most Cats Do
Highly Commended Under 12 Years Category By Robyn Pearce I padded slowly, as most cats do, up to the old stable and peered inside the gap between the doors. I saw the hooves of the horse, and heard a gentle ‘neigh’ from inside. I decided to slink through the small gap, as most cats do. […]
Are You Mad?
Highly Commended Under 12 Years Category By Lily Newsam I love this skating it’s a really fun thing to do. Oh dear here comes my mum. She’ll go mad. Now the ice is starting to crack. If only I had been sensible enough to practice even better flying skills. Then I wouldn’t have to skate […]
The Lady in Disguise
Highly Commended Under 12 Years Category By Bethan White It was the seventh second, of the seventh minute, of the seventh hour, of the seventh day, of the seventh month, oh you get it there is lots of sevens. It all started when me and my family went on holiday to Miami in this spooky […]
The Dragon and the very annoying skeletons
Highly Commended Under 12 Years Category By Sydney Bawler Dick the Dragon dwelt in a magical part of the woods in a cave full of skeletons. Dick had a problem because every minute the skeletons would play a tune with their bones. Now that was a problem because it really annoyed him and it would […]
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