CatherineLeyshonWriter

Corgi-wrangler; writer of (sometimes not-very) short stories. Latest story here:

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@JerichoWriters I can’t make the First 500 online event tonight unfortunately - will you publish your long list of 38 submissions that you loved after the show? Thanks!

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@writingoutlook Hello - less than 1000 followers. Would love to hear from you if you write #shortstories across different genres, with a literary flavour.

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@Mslexia A Time Machine.

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Time and space. #fridayprompt #weekendwriting #WritingCommunity #writersoftwitter #writers #writingprompts
@WritingFaction 30th June 1737 British Commissioners of Longitude grant self-taught clockmaker John Harrison £500 after the successful trial of his first longitude clock.

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@Mslexia Any time I can squeeze a couple of minutes out of the day.

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@angelajcartier Amen.

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@king_reinhardt Make somewhere up.

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@Mslexia Lord Valentine’s Castle by Robert Silverberg. Must’ve read it over 20 times.

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@LauraS_poet Only half an hour? I’m a 45-minute gal myself.

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Thrilled to come third and have another piece highly commended in @WordsWildfire FF150 competition. My pal @row51203 stormed to a win with her magnificent piece. #WritingCommmunity #writing #flashfiction #writersoftwitter

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Delighted to share that I am the winner of the Wildfire Words Flash Fiction Competition. My writing buddy, Catherine Leyshon, took third place with one entry and Highly Commended with another. We fed back on each other’s entries so go us!#writingcommunity #writing #flashfiction

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@row51203 We smashed it!

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@earthypearlpoet Move along. As you were.

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@earthypearlpoet

[CatherineLeyshonWriter @CLeyshonWriter]

Thrilled to have been longlisted for 2 flash fiction pieces - ‘Ursula’ and ‘Rowdy Bouquet’ in the @WordsWildfire #FF150 competition along with @row51203. You can read our entries here https://t.co/mqu9EffaCT

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The new orange? #fridayprompt #weekendwriting #WritingCommunity #writersoftwitter #writers #writingprompts
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16th June 1784: wearing orange clothes is forbidden in the Netherlands because the colour represented the power of magistrates instead of the monarch.

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What's in your suitcase of memories? #fridayprompt #weekendwriting #WritingCommunity #writersoftwitter #writers #writingprompts
@WritingFaction 9th June 1984 Cyndi Lauper gets her first US #1 hit with Time After Time

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Portland Rum Riots #fridayprompt #weekendwriting #WritingCommunity #writersoftwitter #writers #writingprompts
@WritingFaction 2 June 1855: 3000 people riot when Portland's mayor, the 'Napoleon of Temperance', is caught with a $1,600 worth of 'medicinal and mechanical alcohol'.

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@CoraTheWhippet Treacle says hi!

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@LouiseMorrish1 Pantser. That board is impressive but it gives me the sweats.

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Witch hunt. #fridayprompt #weekendwriting #WritingCommunity #writersoftwitter #writers #writingprompts
@WritingFaction 26th May 1647 becomes the first person executed as a witch in the American colonies, when she is hanged in Hartford, Connecticut.