Hannah Moore
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Before the rooster crows. Runner-Up in A Knock at the Door Challenge. Content Warning.
The latch clicked home with a metallic clunk that rippled through the door, into Martha’s fingers and up her arm, shrugging something free around her shoulder blades and returning her, in shattered pieces, to herself. She stood, spine sagging and cheekbones slipping into jowls, and listened for a silence ruined by her own breathing. In her mind’s eye, she saw herself, standing under the electric light, surrounded by the shit she had chosen to prettify plaster and concrete and the tawdry necessity of a hallway from which she was expected to come and go and come and go and come and go in pursuit of some sort of life worth living, and a shrinking nausea slithered through her gut. She slipped off her shoes, dropped her bag to the floor, and went through to the kitchen. Another day down.
By Hannah Moore5 months ago in Fiction
Shameless?
I have criticisms. You'll note the pleural. At the end of August, I joined a local writers group on a trial basis. A "dark fiction" group. I'm not fussy. I'd have given it a whirl if it was romantic fiction, fantasy fiction, historical fiction, erotic fiction, young adult fiction, any kind of fiction. Actually maybe not science fiction. I think I would find myself distressingly bogged down in the research and become frustrated by my failure to invent, for the purpose of a small scene in the opening sequence of my story, a plausible mechanism for teleportation. But this was a "dark fiction" group. I had to write a kind of audition piece and everything. I wasn't really sure where the bounds of dark fiction lie, so I tried to go dark, but nor was I really sure where the bounds of dark fiction lie, so I tried not to go too dark. I'm still not really sure where the bounds of dark fiction lie, but I worry less.
By Hannah Mooreabout a year ago in Writers
End of year report card: 2024
End of Year Report: 2024. 2024 had a positive start to the year and showed promise across several domains, with good behaviour and respectable results. Unfortunately, 2024 has struggled to maintain the performance we might expect based on early metrics, and will need to work hard to recover a strong position going into 2025. It is possible that 2024 took on too much and may benefit from concentrating on areas of weakness. In particular, 2024 would do well to pay attention to reducing loss and grief which can be distracting, and improving on physical health, which may in turn improve performance in mental health. Though it must be acknowledged that there have been barriers to 2024 thriving as fully as had been hoped, it would be lovely to see 2024 continue to step outside of restrictive comfort zones as far as possible as we move into 2025.
By Hannah Mooreabout a year ago in Motivation
Solid Walls
In the movies, December in England is beautiful. The sharp edges of dry stone walls built by men as hard as the stones that made them and tended by sons and grandsons and great grandsons as precisely fitted to the niches of generational inheritance as those same stones, are softened by gently undulating mounds of clean, fresh snow, smoothing over the fissures, an absolution in white. Cottages as lived in as the most comfortable jumper in your wardrobe chuff smoke from chimneys that might, once upon a time, have hidden a priest or two from discovery, and even in the cities, sky-strung fairy lights dance with falling flakes of wistful wonder, sprinkling the wool coat clad pedestrians as they make their way in pairs and laughing groups down streets peopled just heavily enough to saturate the cobbles with cheer, but never so much as to impede any who might wish to spin spontaneously in circles, scarf flying and snowflakes falling into a mouth opened to wonder at the bounty of love. In the movies, December in England tastes like warm cinnamoned pastry and cream, and the English perform a ritualistic battle with their cynicism, which they will win, of course, to suspend their disbelief for a few precious days as the light creeps imperceptibly back into the mid-afternoon sky, and for that interval in time, they will experience the transcendence of peace on earth and good will to all mankind. Even the French. Maybe not the French. It’s never featured in the movies.
By Hannah Mooreabout a year ago in Families
