October 2025

  • Christmas in Colchester: “Surprising Mrs B” – the story continues

    This is the conclusion to a story published in Christmas in Colchester 2025 magazine. If you would like to read the story from the beginning, click here. Otherwise the story continues here: ….After tea, Cally lay on her bed digesting and scrutinising Fleabags, who  was sitting beside her cleaning himself vigorously. He was a long-haired  muddy-brown moggy with one white foot and a white ear. Generally he  favoured a dragged-through-a-hedge-backwards approach to coiffure,  but he had – in fact – only had fleas once and was perfectly clean.  ’Have you always been able to talk?’ she asked.  Fleabags paused with his […]

  • How Did I Get Here

    Hello, I’m Lucy. This is the story of how I got to be holding a copy of my book, in Red Lion Bookshop It’s been a strange time, and while I might look calm on the outside, I can assure you that my insides look a lot more like this:  First, some background. I’m a librarian by profession, and while I’ve wanted to write since I was a child, I’ve only been writing in an organised way for the last five years. I’d written a few things before that, but I had only shared them with my family and close friends. […]