Speculative and near future fiction

Preface . I have always had an interest in writing and history.  As a child I'd spent my time with my head buried in books or writing things down. It seems a lifetime ago now and I suppose as I enter my seventy-third year that is precisely what it is. All that writing never came to anything more than a few piles of battered old notebooks crammed with half finished stories and drawings.   Adulthood came and left little time for those hobbies. Work and my life as a wife and mother seemed to fill all available moments of my days and nights. Now however I have the time once more. Perhaps nobody much will be interested in this old women's words, but it feels more important than ever to get them written down. There are many books and dramatisations of those troubled times that filled my middle aged years and whose impact is still keenly felt as I head into old age. I make no claim that this story is the most comprehensive, the most dramatic or even the most entertainingly...

For anybody finding this blog and wondering what it's all about. This blog is home to my short stories, flash fiction and random musings. Some of it was written years ago, some is new and of course some of it is yet to be written or even thought of. All the fiction here will be of a speculative and/or near future type. Although I might branch into alternative history occasionally. Thematically there will often be a dystopian or political element to it.  Some pieces might be stand alone fiction, some might all be set in the same interconnected future, while others maybe multi part or continuing stories. I will tag them as such when they are posted. As for me I've been writing since I was a child back in the 80's - I've never been published, but it's never been about that, although maybe one day it would be nice. The thing is I've are so many ideas I thought I just get them out there and see what people think.