Stuart Miller-Osborne

The photograph showed her mother standing on the slipway outside of the boathouse wearing only a pair of rowing shorts In the background holding a pair of large wooden oars was her father smiling broadly at the camera Peter was next to her mother toasting her with a glass of red wine   Oh why…

I am six feet tall and find it difficult to achieve a degree of comfort on the narrow seats of my train If I am moved from my desired position then normally this irritates me and I glare at the person who has interrupted my comfort This morning on the crowded train a tall man…

I saw a flying saucer hovering low in the clouds this morning The poets in the Betty Field were scribbling furiously But I ignored them and requested a lift to an unknown world I was placed next to a cage fighter named Super-Blossom He was travelling with me to one of the smaller moons of…

The signal box had been designed in a modernist style some eighty years previously The signalman (who I will call Joseph) was drinking a cup of tea No trains were due for an hour Rose Rosetta was walking towards the railway crossing with her three year old son (who I will call Joseph) Nearly a…

Nobody knew why Wilma jumped from the roof of her apartment building It was a mystery even to Wilma As she plunged headfirst towards the road below she thought she heard a scream A neighbour perhaps Somebody must care Wilma hoped that whilst she fell that she would lose consciousness as she dreaded the impact…

In the summer of 1948 a fisherman found a small steel box on the beach at St Margaret’s Bay The box contained a notebook He handed it to the village’s most famous resident Noel Coward who made discreet enquiries as to its history as he suspected it to be connected with a spy ring which…

As Patterson and Pea slept an orb decorated with pink red and white roses hovered above them It was listening to their dreams Suddenly Pea awoke and asked for their dreams to be returned But it was too late as their dreams were in the possession of monkeys    

I see her quite frequently in the avenue of roses Walking towards the Beaconsfield House She never arrives as she only lives in the imagination of my pen    

On the last day before he retired DoverBeachDeal arranged his deckchairs in tidy formations He had been a deckchair attendant for the whole of his working life A ship called the RonsonBoyRoy was sailing by taking knights in full armour to the last crusade Two sisters one dressed in black The other in white Tried…

There are two fishing boats High on the beach Between Walmer and Deal One is called the Denise C The other is called the Prose Sun The former takes fare paying passengers To the Goodwin Sands But the latter does not