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Brace Yourself, Boy

Kerri CaldwellJune 12, 2019

Brace Yourself, Boy written by: Kerri Caldwell @KerriCaldwell19 You’re like winter and the rest of us are summer. You kill the things you lov...

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A Letter To You

M.H EmonJanuary 20, 2019

A Letter To You written by: M.H. Emon This distance — this point— is me 'n' you there's nothing to hear again there's nothing to see again behind ...

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Christmas Eve 1958

Lauretta KaplanDecember 25, 2018

Christmas Eve 1958 written by: Lauretta Kaplan Christmas Eve the year I was twelve – The stockings were hung; the children were nestled … ...

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A Stone’s Silence

Joseph S. PeteSeptember 11, 2017

A Stone's Silence written by: Joseph S. Pete @nwi_jsp Finally consigned to a group home, My brother withdrew even deeper within himself, Rarely l...

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Excerpt From ‘Reflections’

Slice LucasAugust 7, 2017

Excerpt From 'Reflections' written by: Slice Lucas @SliceLucas now we were once two brothers of the same kind/ and what's mine is yours and what's y...

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Dear Brother

Sydney ChandlerSeptember 19, 2016

Dear Brother written by: Sydney Chandler @syds180turn You told me we were family and that we were all we had. You made me believe that you were my de...

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I was born and bred in Coventry and write under the pseudonym 'Ricky Hawthorne', a character from one of my favourite books from my teenage years, 'Ghost Story' by Peter Straub. In 2002, fearing I would lose my job, I started an MBA in Theatre, Film and Literature at Warwick University, graduating in 2006. During the course I, inexplicably, developed a film narrative inside my head. I then wrote out a script. My first screenplay – ‘Myth’. Since then I have completed four more with the latest ‘Would Love to Meet’ being the first requested by a producer through Inktip. I also have written three teleplays based on my own short stories, a children’s short story, 3 stage plays, a TV Pilot and found my fondness for writing poetry return after several years of dry wood. I am married to my lovely Mairea and we have 5 children.