Stepping out of the box
I’m stepping out of the box.
The last three nights I’ve had nightmares. They were all related to one of my two WIPS’s – the one about a detective solving a series of ritual cannibal murders. I needed saving from my own imagination!
Youngest was the rescuing hero. Digging around the store-room under the staircase yesterday he discovered my old leather art-portfolio. Stuffed in it were some illustrations I did for the two older children. They were meant to accompany a series of doggerel I’d written for them.
Well, it’s always better late than never. And they sure make a difference from a detective reading a cookbook about cooking people:(
The one up there in the picture is the first – A Missive from an Unguided Upbringing.
What do you think? Love to hear your thoughts …
Reader and Writer - Praying Woman - Gardener - Foodie 
Audrey you are brave writing about cannibals…. I love the short piece…Katie and her brother stuck with each other and I would love to see it as a picture book of course.
I’d say the thing with the cannibals is my “dark side” emerging. It’s going to be an exploration of the underside of migration and the food industry in Singapore. But I got overwhelmed by the nastiness that my fingers started spewing from the keyboard. It reminded me of what happened to my mother-in-law when she got advanced dementia. She started using words that no one thought she even knew! It really rattled everyone. I will get back to the novel. In the meantime though, I’m going to just do a week of missives from my 2 older kids unguided upbringing.