Fiona Hamer

Joined May 2021

21 stories

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Simultaneously writing fiction and restoring a sheep farm in Australia. Can get messy. You can see more about life on the farm at onebendintheriver.com.

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Departure
Flowers in her arms, The crowd smiling up at her, Saying thanks, with tears
By Fiona Hamerabout a month ago in Poets
Morning
Magpies carol joy A cool breeze wandering in, The screen door slams shut
By Fiona Hamerabout a month ago in Poets
Cafe
Voices hub-bubbling with The clatter of teacups and Scent of hot breakfast
By Fiona Hamerabout a month ago in Poets
I am the Algorithm. Runner-Up in Instructions for a Feeling Challenge.
They say the greatest of all is love, But the most monetized is fear I have an infallible recipe for Making fear jump mind to mind
By Fiona Hamer2 months ago in Poets
A Plague of Words
Fear in the eyes, Taunts and lies, A dream spins over my sleeping head. Words slippery and slimy, Words hard and chunky,
By Fiona Hamer3 years ago in Poets
No Bull Becky and the Crocodile Bait
"That a storm coming?" One of the regulars peers out the grubby window at the long line of dusty road. "I heard there was a storm coming."
By Fiona Hamer4 years ago in Fiction
Two Witches and a Weed
"Everything has its place," said Kat Grimm. "Everything has its time," said Andromeda Lovegood. The difference meant war was inevitable.
By Fiona Hamer4 years ago in Fiction
All homes are different but the same
A smile A hug Food And shelter. Photo by Cathy Mu on Unsplash Sailors on the boundless ocean: ‘This is our home.”
By Fiona Hamer5 years ago in Poets
Under the Ice
The light changed as they went beyond the mouth of the cave. Gradually there was a blue-green glow, utterly different from the Antarctica of grey sea and white ice that had surrounded them for weeks.
By Fiona Hamer5 years ago in Fiction
A Floral Feud
THIS STORY HAS BEEN UPDATED AS "TWO WITCHES AND A WEED" It was a long war. It had started with snails, moved on to weed seeds, weedkiller, then angry calls to the local Council complaints office, and, possibly, witchcraft.
By Fiona Hamer5 years ago in Fiction
Shark Tooth
You know this was all an ocean once, don’t you?” “This desert? It’s pretty dry now. Especially if you’ve drunk all the cider. Did you drink all the cider?”
By Fiona Hamer5 years ago in Fiction
DECLUTTERING
“There’s something else here!” Mia tugs on the pile of old man clothes in the musty closet. It collapses, dusting her dark, curly hair in a waft of mould and dust. She emerges clutching a brown-paper wrapped package, shoe-box sized.
By Fiona Hamer5 years ago in Fiction

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Departure

Morning

Cafe

I am the Algorithm. Runner-Up in Instructions for a Feeling Challenge.

A Plague of Words

No Bull Becky and the Crocodile Bait

Two Witches and a Weed

All homes are different but the same

Under the Ice

A Floral Feud

Shark Tooth

DECLUTTERING

Achievements (2)