wind Archives - Spillwords

Home

wind

Hard to Keep

Dani Gray·April 24, 2016

Hard to Keep written by: Gray Skies @seattlegray03 Laying here, pressed against one another, head resting on...

English

·1 min read

The Day Has Turned

Aaron McMillan·March 23, 2016

The Day Has Turned written by: Aaron McMillan @PoetryontheMind Clouds fly over in a ferocious speed, Winds...

English Poetry

·1 min read

Huracán

Jose A Gomez·August 25, 2015

Huracán An Original Poem by José A. Gómez Llovía muy fuerte en la vecindad decían los viejos que...

Jose A Gomez Spanish

·1 min read

An Old Irish Blessing

Spillwords·March 17, 2015

An Old Irish Blessing May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind always be at...

English Literary Greats

·1 min read

No More Content

Go Back To Homepage

I was born and raised in Yorkshire, England. At fifteen I left school without the skills or maturity to appreciate the wider world. At nineteen I packed a bag and wandered through Europe and North Africa, learning from the road. At twenty‑five I earned the qualifications for university, eventually becoming a high school teacher and later an education manager. Now I live with my amazing wife on an island north of Seattle. After retiring and with encouragement from Spillwords and the Clever Park Writers Group, I traded reports for storytelling. And that's where the fiction began...

Cast Off by Niall Crowley

The two computer screens tighten their grip. Tom pivots between them, tracking one while he works on the other. Careful discipline from early morning to close of business. Number crunching, he would have termed it before. Now it’s data management and verification, his task to model and tabulate clients’ financial situations and options. Bookkeeping, he would admit to, in more candid moments. He’s tethered firmly to the task, though, and has been since he started here, nearly two years now. Bound in the rigour the work requires, as if life itself depends on it. Top floor, dormer window ...

Features

The Keys

Junior

Interview Q&A With Jim Wilson-Storey

Interviews

Spotlight On Writers – Pramod Rastogi

Interview Q&A With Jim Wilson-Storey

Spotlight On Writers – Patricia Carragon

Junior

Ode To My Headphones

The Power to Undo

The Willow Whispers

Vanishing Ink

The Evening I Held Her

How to Be a Butterfly

Sono

wind

Hard to Keep

The Day Has Turned

Huracán

An Old Irish Blessing

Ode To My Headphones

Pin Drop

Interview Q&A With Jim Wilson-Storey

Junior

Don’t Remember Her This Way

The Keys

Trepidation Sits On My Doorstep

Laughter in Sorrow

Starless Heart

Graceful Decay

Blight