Short Story - The Drawing Pin
An attack of metaphysics for you all this month - a stream of consciousness piece of writing created for the Creative Prose module of my Masters in Literary Studies and Creative Writing. However, given it was shortly after writing this that I wrote the story that evolved into my novels, see if you can spot at least one theme from there that was on my mind! The Drawing Pin By Katherine Vick A glint; light catches. In a seconds pause, my eye is drawn to flash of hurried bronze, a whisper of brightness that touched, just for an instant, on the shining dome of a drawing pin pushed deep into the brown jigsaw of cork that sheathes the nearby wall. My gaze lifts – I stare for a moment at smooth convex surface, mostly dull but for a golden twinkle along one rim, a sunny wink in my direction, reflecting the dim glow of a cloud sheathed sun beyond the windowpane. It’s misty today, a dull pall that lingers like an off-white shroud over a forest of chimney tops and T...