by Anne Skyvington | Oct 17, 2023 | Short Stories
My Story I’ve always been afraid of things. Psychologists in this country use cognitive behaviour techniques (CBT) on people like me. This involves teaching you how to change thoughts, to over-ride fearful feelings and alter behaviour. It’s a...
by Anne Skyvington | Oct 17, 2023 | Short Stories
A story about a naïve traveller in a strange land I open my eyes wide onto a strange world into which I’ve stumbled as if by accident. All is new and filled with an alien glow, muted colours, greys yet beautiful. Hippies are twanging their guitars along the Seine....
by Anne Skyvington | Sep 13, 2023 | Short Stories
Jeannie is one of these inch worm types. One toe in, one toe back. The cold has always been alien. From birth, really. Even today, she shivers with the water temperature around 20 degrees. Babies are gurgling in mothers’ arms in the pool, for God’s sake. Cassius with...
by Anne Skyvington | Jan 1, 2023 | Short Stories
A short story based on a life well-lived This piece is loosely based on my husband’s life, as a child spent in the Sydney suburb of Bondi, and as a man trying to make up for past lacunae. I believe that our childhood experiences are what brought us together, at least...
by Anne Skyvington | Feb 10, 2022 | Short Stories
A story of eternal love Dearest, I was telling our grandson, Andreas, just the other day, how he possesses the feeling function more strongly than I. He had just espied, while on our walk, a darling dead chaffinch on the ground, and was kneeling over its poor lifeless...
by Anne Skyvington | Apr 12, 2019 | Short Stories
Note: I first published this post on this blog in February, 2013. I have added little to the original for re-scheduling it in April 2019, apart from photos and some minor formatting changes. I have also added Kate Forsythe’s more complex pyramid diagram below....
