by Sarah Tinsley | Jun 2, 2019 | Blog
“The world is only tolerable because of the empty places in it…when the world’s filled up, we’ll have to get hold of a star. Any star. Venus, or Mars. Get hold of it and leave it empty. Man needs an empty space somewhere for his spirit to rest in.” Doris Lessing...
by Sarah Tinsley | Oct 22, 2018 | Blog
Over the past few weeks, something strange has happened. In the tiny bubbles of time I get between work and baby, I’ve started to write again.At first, it wasn’t much. A few scenes that barely reached 300 words. Some thoughts, a memory, nothing substantial. But it was...
by Sarah Tinsley | Oct 26, 2017 | Blog
My shelf is in danger of falling down. We put it up to replace the bedside tables, so it hovers above our heads, laden with all the stuff I used to cram into those drawers. A basket filled with far too many tubes of half-finished hand cream, assorted earphones, toe...
by Sarah Tinsley | Oct 2, 2017 | Blog
The leaves on the tree outside my window are dying. But they are so beautiful in their death. Near the top, they still have green hearts, tinged with an acid-bright red. Towards the bottom, they’ve faded to yellow, as if dipped in custard. Every year this tree stands...
by Sarah Tinsley | Aug 11, 2017 | Blog
When I was a student at University, I took a composition course. Bashing away at the keys of a piano in a quiet practice room (it was 11pm, I had homework due the following day), the impossibility of creating anything genuinely ‘new’ suddenly struck me. There they...
