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Dear Doctor

21-Jan-19 By Pamela Pickton Leave a Comment

or… WRONG DIAGNOSIS   Dear Doctor, `You should not have told your daughter,` you said. `She’s best out of it,` you said. Well done. Do you realise what you caused? What you were saying? I came to you because of marital problems. Even concerned for the husband who was causing so much misery. `Is it […]

Filed Under: Opinion, Writing Tagged With: divorce, Doctor Diagnosis, fetish, marriage, Pamela Pickton

Lunch for the Needy

28-Sep-18 By Pamela Pickton 1 Comment

I am at the church which I sometimes attend, mostly for their social events such as a Harvest Suppermeal or one of their discussion groups and courses. These meals, For the Homeless, are run by a local charity, and churches in the area take their turn to be host, about twice a year. It works […]

Filed Under: Opinion, Writing Tagged With: Church Charity, Food for the Needy, Lunch for the Needy, Needy, Pamela Pickton

How I Came To Write ‘Reasons’

30-Jul-18 By Pamela Pickton Leave a Comment

How I came to write the title story of my collection of short stories, Reasons. While studying for my Masters Degree in Creative Writing, I was fortunate to have Paul Bailey, novelist and critic, as my tutor for one option. The assignment was to write a 500 word story and I was unsure how to […]

Filed Under: Opinion, Writing Tagged With: Old Man Young Woman, Pamela Pickton, Reasons, zitebooks

Show Business

9-Mar-16 By Pamela Pickton Leave a Comment

When she discovered that she was, unusually, not going to be with her children for Christmas Day last year, my friend decided she would offer her time to our YMCA, to serve Christmas Day lunch to the homeless and the lonely. Although her children were either abroad or needed more by younger in-laws, she was not […]

Filed Under: Getting Published, Marketing, Opinion Tagged With: Entertained, Lonely, Neverland, Pamela Pickton, Show Business, zitebooks

Seven Ages of Man

20-Oct-15 By Pamela Pickton Leave a Comment

I recently stayed in a holiday resort where there were a lot of retired fire fighters, many of them having been injured on the job, some permanently. I got talking to groups of them and some got up from the table where we had been eating and talking, stiffly, and with difficulty, clearly in pain. […]

Filed Under: Marketing, Writing, Zite News Tagged With: Pamela Pickton, Reasons, Seven Ages of man, Shakespeare, Short Stories

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