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I was sitting at home on Thursday afternoon quietly contemplating my life and my situation. I had not much sleep the night before, I guess that was because of the days events and the devastating news of someone I knew who had been murdered the evening before. I heard of the sad story whilst watching the news on television. It is at times like these that we take stock and especially so when we have time on our hands. I should have been working at home but I’d been out to do a job for someone else and was feeling very tired. My mind full of enthusiasm but my flesh wasn’t up to it and I resigned myself to taking it easy instead. I was listening to BBC Radio 4 and drifting in and out of a few cat naps. One program was about the merit or not of short stories and introduced a couple of short story writers to give their opinion as to why they wrote them and if they thought they were well received by the reading public. One or two of those readers, when asked, were very supportive of short stories and talked about how they encouraged the reader to get into the story quickly, why they were not kept waiting to discover the plot as it were and how much more enjoyable they were as opposed to having to spend days reading a standard novel. Each to their own though, not everyone thought the same. I got to thinking that much of what we do here in our blogs are essentially short stories, clips, snap shots and random experiences in our lives put to the electronic page. I find reading other people’s blogs fascinating for the most part although some, probably my own too but hopefully not often, can be a little boring. It all depends on the reader though doesn’t it? We can only guess what our readers think unless they respond in a comment. I say that because I do have a lot of readers each day but of course not all of them comment. I might be swamped trying to answer in response if that were the case. I have never really enjoyed reading fiction always preferring facts which I suppose is why I like reading blogs although I will read short stories because, well, they are short! When blog posts begin to get too long I begin to lose interest but I try my best to stay with them if the subject is particularly of interest to me. With that in mind and the fear of driving my readers away I now close this post having written what I wanted to say and having reached 455 words.

Shirley Anne

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