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‘The People Indoors’ – Eight Days of Ether

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Eight Days of Ether: every day a new theme and only 24 hours to submit. Day 5 – The People Indoors. Edited 21/01/2025 to include the full text. Carole mostly drives the body for the big stuff but they all do a few day-to-day things like shopping, which accounts for the odd items Carole finds around the house. The camouflage underwear for instance, that’s The Robin. Tofu is The Emily’s doing, with her vegan fads and tendency to throw up if any of the others eats a burger, and the Metallica album she woke up to in the early hours one … Continue reading ‘The People Indoors’ – Eight Days of Ether

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‘Where Things Come From’ – Eight Days of Ether

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Eight Days of Ether: every day a new theme and only 24 hours to submit. Day 4 – Desire Where Things Come From. Chocolates – dark and bitter and containing surprises such as a chilli-coated scorpion or a gingered locust. Desire is sometimes, I think, about things we find ourselves valuing above almost anything else even though they’re often shallow and meaningless. But sometimes it’s about a deeper, more personal need, a longing for something solid, profoundly meaningful such as a connection with other people that is unconditional. This story, at first glance, seems to be saying a lot about materialism – … Continue reading ‘Where Things Come From’ – Eight Days of Ether

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‘When’ – Eight Days of Ether

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Eight Days of Ether: every day a new theme and only 24 hours to submit. Day 3 – Time When. When you don’t have any left because something in you stopped working. When you have too much and it hangs like wet blankets in your head and over your eyes. When someone steals it by gossiping … I own up right away to hearing ‘If’[1] in the background all the way through writing this and I apologise to the spirit of Rudyard Kipling for my impertinence. This is not so much one story as many; probably ones we’ve all experienced … Continue reading ‘When’ – Eight Days of Ether

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‘The space between thinking and doing’ – Eight Days of Ether

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Eight Days of Ether: every day a new theme and only 24 hours to submit: I thought I’d give maybe one or two a go but maths was never my strong point and anyway, come the end, I’d have eight pieces of flash that would otherwise never have seen daylight. Also, taking a peek at the next day’s theme brought out the competitor in me. I didn’t make it easy for myself though, after getting through the first without mentioning the topic by name (or even syno-name) the game was on … Day 1 – Adventure The space between thinking … Continue reading ‘The space between thinking and doing’ – Eight Days of Ether

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‘The Space Between Thinking And Doing’

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Day One of the ‘8 Days of Ether’ flash fiction competition and today’s prompt is ‘adventure’. If you fancy your chances, here’s the submissions page, and if you have a smartphone – download the app for as much content as you can squeeze into your brain between now and just before the sun goes whooomf. The Space Between Thinking And Doing will be available from midnight tonight, UK time. Continue reading ‘The Space Between Thinking And Doing’

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Dear Cancer Part 3

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Originally posted on drkategranger:
Dear Cancer, Well, it has been a few months since we were last in correspondence and given this past week’s events I thought it was an opportune moment to put pen to paper again. I don’t mean to be rude but you didn’t bloody keep your side of the bargain did you?! I asked you really politely to let the chemotherapy subdue you and help me to feel less pain. All you had to do was in essence lose a little weight and go to sleep. Then we could have continued our symbiosis for a good… Continue reading Dear Cancer Part 3

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Where’s the ‘vague but exciting’ tick box for today’s research?

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

“Vague but exciting…” is what Tim Berners-Lee’s boss scribbled on his proposal to build the worldwide web before giving him the go-ahead to start work. If today’s research proposal rules had been in place, I’d argue it might never have happened because, in health services at least, the process has become one of regimented, formulaic stultification. One that squeezes the life out of innovative thinking and pins it to endless rigid forms that will only admit x-number-of-characters-including-spaces. By the time a project has been approved and funding granted, the thing that so excited and wired you up to the mains … Continue reading Where’s the ‘vague but exciting’ tick box for today’s research?

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