Creative Writing Course - The Final Product
Well, here it is folks. My final piece for the Creative Writing course with the Open University, which has received a 'Distinction' from the Board of Examiners. It must be good! The Action Hero I am pedalling towards a village. It’s a small village, with a few stone houses gathered around a shop selling statues, a church with a graveyard, and not much else. Beside me on the road there is a man walking. He has a tiny dog and is talking to it like it’s his wife. ‘You always do that, don’t you Lily. Every Saturday. Hurrummph. Ev-er-y Saturday.’ I wonder what has happened to his wife. I wonder if she died. I always think about this when I see a man with a dog. I keep pedalling and come to the centre of the village. It is a bit bigger than I thought - there is a pub and a green and a stream that rushes towards a waterwheel - and it smells funny, like our back garden on the day Grandma comes round for tea. I like that smell. I have seen a hundred villages like this i