The Written Word Group

Let's go for a quiet walk in the country on a sunny warm morning after rainy night and see nature in its element. 

A beautifully descriptive journey of walking through nature.

After inheriting a plot of overgrown woodland, he begins to clear out  dilapidated wooden garages that haven't been opened for many years.  

In one of the garages he discovers an old Bentley in need of a lot of tender loving care.  He risks his marriage as he spends the next six years renovating the car before he enters it into the Concore's de Elegance at a major classic car show.  Has all his hard work been worth it?  Will it all end in a divorce?  

A chap finds an abandoned, once beautiful, yacht in a backwater. He buys it and sets about renovating it back to its original glory.  After ten years of work he has to sell it in order to have enough money to get married.  

He sets out to deliver the yacht to its new owner in the Bahamas and carrying a precious cargo, but as he is crossing the Atlantic he gets caught up in a storm.  

Will his pride and joy weather the storm or will all be lost and his fiancé be a widow before she is married? 

An accountant has been embarrassing his daughter as he takes her to school in his battered old Cortina for long enough.

  One day he is driving to his office after dropping her off at school when the engine blows up.  Now he is forced to buy a 'new' car and the only one he can find is a nineteen thirties Rolls Royce.  

What will his daughters reaction be?

After having a good day at the town's Gala, Eddie, the ice cream man, drives home. It had been a long, tiring day but he knew the roads.

As lights from oncoming traffic blind him, he misjudges the S bend and the oncoming bridge. The large drainage ditches make it even more difficult to control his van.

After eating too much over the Christmas period, haven't we've all done it, a couple decide to buy bicycles and join a club to get fit and lose weight.  

But, towards the end of a ride out into the country, things take a strange turn.

After a relentless storm, a young couple make a decision that  they will regret, and decide to look at the dangerous rapids that had been created as a result of torrential rains. 

They take their baby in it's push chair, but slip and the pushchair and baby fall into the rapids.  Is there anyway that the baby can survive the rock filled flooded gorge?

A harrowing story of survival.

Eventually, the beatings, the starvation, the inhumane conditions, makes a person indifferent to what is happening around them.

Survival is what matters, and doing anything to ensure you are on the right side of the furnace. 

Bishop had finally served his time and could carry out the one thing that had been a long term plan of his.

But first, there were things to put in place. Somewhere to live, a job, perhaps a change of appearance. 

And then there was Gareth. That was the end goal.

The Written Word Group acknowledges the third party contributors and producers of this recording.  

The dances told stories of families, of lives, oppression and misery. In the next beat came victory, and the welcoming of a new age.

The images and power of the flamenco, told in this emotional and descriptive short story.