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Prose FictionBattlements - Kay MacMullan 3Bonfire Night Butterfly - Jules Hammond 6Prose Non-Fiction & MemoirThe Top of the Hill - Chris Cox 9A Good Deed in a - Olive Monkcom 12Naughty WorldPoetryWhen Snow Fell in Bexhill - Olive Monkcom 14New Year’s Day - Olive Monkcom 15- 2 -
Author:Category:Kay MacMullanProse FictionPlacing: 1 st Battlements‘Did princesses live here?’ asked Emily.‘No, silly. Knights with swords and horses,’ scoffed James.Laura smiled at her children’s reaction to the castle.‘There’s a gift shop!’‘They sell ice creams!’‘We’re not here to buy ice cream,’ said Laura, directing Mark to the end of the carpark.‘Get your outfits on,’ said Mark, already out of the car. ‘We’re going to storm thecastle. I’ll buy you ice creams on the way back.’Laura noticed how he ignored her and as he raced off in the carefree mannerthat she’d once found so appealing, she helped James into plastic chain mail andtried to disentangle the ribbons on Emily’s princess headdress.As her children followed their dad down the grassy bank, Laura turned to lock thecar. The mist was lifting from the plain, revealing regular lines of tall treesemerging from their wintry skeletal state. The tilted white tips of oast houses andthe dark silhouette of a solid Norman church punctuated the blurred sky. Theview exuded an unfamiliar calm.Blinking, Laura followed her family across the spongy grass to the incongruouspill box in front of the castle. James was striking knight poses on its concrete roofand poking Emily with the crumpled tip of his sword. Having noticed the long dropfrom one side of the roof, Laura hurried to move Emily from danger.- 3 -
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