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PETER GASKELL: Stitched Up

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For her skilful embroidery work, the refugee camp charity gave her money to support her sisters still in Syria.

Her most beautiful dress yet, this one Yara imagined wearing after she reached Europe.

The man promising her safe sea passage smiled as he folded her battered banknote into his pocket.

Since he was published in the Atlanta Review and his short screenplay ‘Pigs in Muck’ featured in the Lockdown Monologue Film Festival recently, Peter Gaskell is currently aiming to show how he values economy of language and so has taken to writing haiku and flash fiction where every word must be used to maximum effect

PETER GASKELL: Last Human Contact

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People had stopped coming to see Elsa. She couldn’t imagine why.

This new home had even less space and light than before.

Then the van stopped moving. Blue sky and the smell of savanna burst through the open door.

“Just hope you still remember how to hunt,” said her zookeeper.

Gaining a Masters degree from University of South Wales in Scriptwriting, storyteller Peter Gaskell’s screenplay ‘Pigs in Muck’ featured in the Lockdown Monologue Film Festival recently. His poems have been published in the Atlanta Review and Places of Poetry as well as reviews of theatre, books, film, and concerts in Wales Arts Review. As a commissioned ghost writer his work as a novelist has been published while he is currently seeking an agent for his own novel ‘Shaman’s Blues’.