Michelle 🦕

mum, partner, EMCH nurse, midwife, treated for breast cancer, lover of the nana nap, crafternoons, and gin. A true piscean, just don’t ask me what’s for dinner.

[Michelle 🦕 @sallycorolla]

Absolutely stoked to be Shortlisted with my story ‘The Room’. Congratulations to the winner, others shortlisted and longlisted. And thank you @WritersCentreAU for this opportunity to challenge ourselves every month. Basking now in the reward! #furiousfiction

[Michelle 🦕 @sallycorolla]

Another cleaner who skimmed around the hot plates leaving charred remains of last nights dinner.

Out to the elements he goes.

She’d lost all patience but honed her chopping skills.

#30words30days #element

[Michelle 🦕 @sallycorolla]

@Ivona_Coghlan Well done.

[Michelle 🦕 @sallycorolla]

In her vegetable garden, she grows gratitude, cultivates confidence and harvests happiness. Here there is no ‘odd bunch’ or ‘defective fruit.’ Even battling a plague of pests doesn’t stunt her.

#30Words30Days #grow

[Michelle 🦕 @sallycorolla]

How many times does she think #being a mother is the hardest gig? Daily? Once a minute? Once a month?

‘Mum, mum mum, Maria, MUM, MOTHER!’

How about right now?

#30Words30Days #being

[Michelle 🦕 @sallycorolla]

@AKScotland One of these days if the mojo ever comes back for writing a story longer than a tweet. I look forward to hearing about the efforts of others. Well done for running a great competition.

[Michelle 🦕 @sallycorolla]

@KProkhovnik Well done. Visceral

[Michelle 🦕 @sallycorolla]

@HeatherBookNook Glad to be of service Heather 🤣

[Michelle 🦕 @sallycorolla]

‘Mavis you’re always airing our dirty laundry.’
‘Well, Mabel you’re always putting on airs and graces.’

‘Am not!’
‘Are too!’...

They #air their grievances till they’re both out of breath.

#30words30days

[Michelle 🦕 @sallycorolla]

@twitnikki Nikki I’m sorry to read that. 😘

[Michelle 🦕 @sallycorolla]

Oscar’s surrounded by all the bells and whistles: black and white books, a brightly patterned activity mat, a musical stuffed elephant, but all he can see is her expressionless face.

#30words30days #pattern

[Michelle 🦕 @sallycorolla]

@pleomorphic2 Kapow! 👊❣️

[Michelle 🦕 @sallycorolla]

@Alialight88 @iwasaplatypus Clever!

[Alison Knight @Alialight88]

Her evening followed a familiar pattern.
He’d slug whisky; she’d gather wool. He’d needle her; she’d knit her brows. He’d start a row; she’d unravel.
Someday she’d cast him off.
#30words30days #pattern

[Michelle 🦕 @sallycorolla]

@iwasaplatypus Wonderful!

[Michelle 🦕 @sallycorolla]

Come to the #desert. Here there will be no town lights to take away the glory of the night sky. You will feel infinitesimal yet never so alive. Please come.

#30words30days

[Amy Remeikis @AmyRemeikis]

Your semi-regular reminder that 'believe survivors' or 'believe women' does not mean that you lock someone up merely on the basis of an allegation. It means that you meet a disclosure from the starting position of believing something could have happened and going from there

[Michelle 🦕 @sallycorolla]

Newlywed, they moved into a shoebox. Their #space to grow together.

Irritations crept in.
Comparisons became annoyances.
Anger flourished.

Eventually, the mail was stamped RTS.
The home, spacious with relief.

#30words30days

[Michelle 🦕 @sallycorolla]

Mouldy soup…said like that it sounds rather unappetizing. But she could make something out of nothing, even if 'nothing' was limp and fuzzy carrots. Cut, wash, cook. Bon appetit!

#30Words30Days #mould

[Michelle 🦕 @sallycorolla]

@rat_ink Love this!