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August | 2016 | paulaharmondownes

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Kindling – a book by Paula Harmon. The Advent Calendar – a book by Paula Harmon. Lunchtime (or “to see ourselves as others see us”). August 31, 2016. Carlos’s mouth watered. He reached up to the sign, ready to flip from Abierto to Cerrado when he spotted them. Oh no, talking of prawns. Here they came – two families who looked like prawns – both types – the raw and the overcooked. Why did they always choose to ignore the big notice which said 12:00-14:00 CERRADO? Cerrado, said Carlos firmly. Cerrado, Carl...

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December | 2016 | paulaharmondownes

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Kindling – a book by Paula Harmon. The Advent Calendar – a book by Paula Harmon. Twas the Night Before Christmas. December 24, 2016. January 22, 2017. Twas the night before Christmas and all through the barn,. The rafters were festooned with fine silken yarn. The spiders had woven their intricate lace. And fireflies like fairy lights lit up the place. Thus the barn looked so festive yet down in the hay. A girl dressed in nothing but rags and tears lay. Cast out in the cold with no friend to stand by.

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July | 2016 | paulaharmondownes

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Kindling – a book by Paula Harmon. The Advent Calendar – a book by Paula Harmon. July 31, 2016. Of course he could fly, he knew it. In pain, though, in waiting silence, he was not so sure. His arms, once strong, could now barely lift themselves from the covers. Now she came round every day. Why don’t she ever take you out? She said, when his mother was out of earshot. She says she can’t. Can’t be bothered more like. What a lousy view. It’s better from mine. It’s not so bad. The sky could swallow you up&#...

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Books by Paula Harmon | paulaharmondownes

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Kindling – a book by Paula Harmon. The Advent Calendar – a book by Paula Harmon. Books by Paula Harmon. I’ve published a book of short stories! Available as an e-book and in paperback. Stories from life, stories from imagination. Serious stories. Silly stories. Also a couple of dragons. UK and ROI readers click here. US readers click here. Netherlands readers click here. German readers click here. French readers click here. Spanish Readers click here. Indian readers click here.

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November | 2016 | paulaharmondownes

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Kindling – a book by Paula Harmon. The Advent Calendar – a book by Paula Harmon. November 27, 2016. Christmas lights brightened January until twelfth night, the day after my father’s birthday. My birthday a week later was then and almost always has since taken place in a damp, grey gloom. The cheer of Christmas was over and now we faced just the long, muddy, dismal slog to Spring. That Christmas we went to my great aunt’s house as usual and nineteen or so ate a wonderful dinner and my sister and I chased...

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January | 2017 | paulaharmondownes

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Kindling – a book by Paula Harmon. The Advent Calendar – a book by Paula Harmon. January 29, 2017. Jo climbed the tree fast. Hang on, I said, pulling myself up after her. The branches shuddered. Old twigs shook loose and caught in my hair. They won’t see us up here, I argued, Not in all these leaves. Jo paused. Her face was rippling with green light as the swaying slowed. It was hot. She was always saying this sort of thing, with utter certainty, dragging me in. It’s the tallest tree in. Bit of the woods.

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Jane, Sarah-Jane and Susan – a tale of jealousy, blindness and knitted knickers | paulaharmondownes

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Kindling – a book by Paula Harmon. The Advent Calendar – a book by Paula Harmon. Jane, Sarah-Jane and Susan – a tale of jealousy, blindness and knitted knickers. January 7, 2017. January 22, 2017. I never really understood dolls. I was neither a tom-boy nor a girly girl. I liked hand-crafts, skirts and being. Clean but I also liked climbing trees, making shelters, building things, doing experiments. I yearned for a train set and chemistry set. But I was a girl so I was given dolls. Susan’s skin was brown...

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Justice | paulaharmondownes

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Kindling – a book by Paula Harmon. The Advent Calendar – a book by Paula Harmon. December 14, 2016. December 14, 2016. I don’t know which side my ancestors supported in the English civil war. Their voice, their sufferings, during the republic’s creation and dissolution are, like those of most common men lost to history. Battle fields have been reduced to tourist attractions. Today, I weep for ordinary people like me who this second are sending their last tweets as bombs fall after another failed ceasefire.

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September | 2016 | paulaharmondownes

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Kindling – a book by Paula Harmon. The Advent Calendar – a book by Paula Harmon. Who Makes Me Fear? September 23, 2016. Who makes me fear? I says the terrorist. I with my gun. I want to blot out your sun. I make you fear. Who makes me fear? I says the stranger. I might lie in wait. With a heart full of hate. I make you fear. Who makes me fear? I says the gossip. With my stash of half-lies. I ensure the truth dies. I make you fear. Who makes me fear? I say the press. I fill up editions. I make you fear.

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Resolutions | paulaharmondownes

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Kindling – a book by Paula Harmon. The Advent Calendar – a book by Paula Harmon. January 2, 2017. January 22, 2017. Day one: 1st January 8.30am. Determined, I crunch through the frosty grass to the shed where my husband has put the exercise bike. Peddling will warm you up. he calls cheerfully from the bedroom window, then gets back into bed with a hot cup of tea. It is nice in the shed. Or it can be. The sun angles onto the pine walls as I peruse the resolutions I’d pinned the day before:. My daughter mu...