The Arabian Bard
I'm a writer who loves spinning spooky takes, crime fiction and whatever else grabs my attention.
Friday 14 June 2024
It's been a while.
Monday 18 December 2023
Christmas Week 2023
Wednesday 9 August 2023
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
Saturday 25 March 2023
The Day I Realised That Scientology is a Cult
Sunday 6 March 2022
You're a Hottie!
That's what an ex told me after a date. He was the first guy I dated since my divorce. It was exciting, thrilling and fun.
One thing no one told me a few months into my 40th birthday was how single I was going to feel. How much of a failure I felt. And how having a midlife crises made my insides liquify into the deep layers of hell.
The pandemic didn't help much either.
All those societal pressures:
* Having a partner
*Having kids
*Having a successful career - whatever that means
*Having a home
All I ever wanted was to be myself. Why do I have to be serious to be a grown up? That never made any sense to me. So weird. Adulting can be scaring, but so can acting like who you're expected to be. F that.
One of the worst things of getting older is the expectations of having kids. If you get the question as much as I do, you know exactly how it feels.
Having an unfulfilling 9 - 5 job fuelled the 'what the heck am I doing with my life' thoughts even more. To pull myself out of this, I go back to what I love. Writing.
I'm going to leave you here on a not so blank page and fall into writing a spooky story for kids.
Have a super chilled Sunday. 💋
Sunday 3 January 2021
Amber Days 6
Chapter 6
It was two O'clock in the morning. Berta could feel herself aging again. The brief joy she felt earlier that night lasted her a lifetime. Her next kill had to be younger. The energy she would absorb from a younger body would last much longer.
The hours drifted like the faint memories of her youth. A moving truck jarred her back to the present. She checked her trusty Omega. It was twenty minutes past six.
On the sofa, she lay down to catch up with her sleep. When the sun rose higher and the shadows lengthened, she got ready for an exciting day.
A fresh batch of cookie dough was whipped up. She added her secret ingredient and started making balls. She filled two trays and placed them in the oven. When the timer pinged, Berta turned the oven off. The cookies were cooling on a rack by the time her new neighbours had settled down.
The Potters had sat down for lunch when three knocks brought their attention to the door. Stella Potter returned her fork and knife to their resting place before going to get the door.
Berta straightened her back and smiled.
"Hello there! Don't mind me disturbing your lunch. I'm dropping off some freshly backed cookies I made earlier to welcome you to the street."
A black car screeched to a halt. DI Shard fell out of it in his rush to get out. Straightening his legs, he placed himself between her and Stella.