Sarah Hilary's Writings
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Short Story
Mar.25.2009
Smokelong Quarterly
Molly Cottle was burying stolen spoons in the garden.
Silver spoons and gold ones with pictures painted in their bowls of sunflowers and bagpipes, and Blackpool Tower. Spoons with handles twisted like barley sugar. Fat spoons. Tiny spoons. Spoons made of horn looking like smoke and honey.
Molly was using the fat spoons to dig holes in the soil for the littler...
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Short Story
Mar.25.2009
Prick of the Spindle
It was a very Biblical Easter in our little corner of England. Forty days and nights of rain sluiced the last of the snow through soil and silage, delivering it down from the hills in a great wave that set the motorhomes sailing in the caravan park like giant ducks in a tub of mud.
We were walking off the excesses of Easter Sunday, hot cross buns and turkey,...
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Short Story
Mar.25.2009
Literary Mama
My daughter, two-and-a-quarter, burns her comet's trail around the problematic space of the sitting room, narrowly negotiating the adult terrain of armchairs, rugs, and bookcases.
With both hands she flips over a large footstool, shaped like a box, bought before she was born. It was intended for another setting, child-unfriendly, a distant memory. Once butter-...
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About Sarah
Sarah is an award-winning writer whose fiction appears in Smokelong Quarterly, The Fish Anthology 2008, Prick of the Spindle, The Best of Every Day Fiction, and in the Crime Writers’ Association anthology, MO: Crimes of Practice. A column about the wartime...
Causes Sarah Hilary Supports
Cancer Research, British Red Cross, British Heart Foundation