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Susan O'Neal

Susan O’Neal is a student at the UK Open University, where she is studying Creative Writing. She has lived in Croydon for most of her adult life. Now an early retiree, she has taken up writing and is working on a volume of short stories.


FOCUS
Short Fiction
Sci-Fi & Fantasy Suspense & Mystery 5 min

Harnessing the Unicorn

I reached for the control strip and tapped the edit icon. Immediately, the scene changed to a woodland, dark fir trees casting long shadows beneath a heavy winter sky. For background effect, I added... [+]

Finalist - Community Button Fiction Spring 2019
Short Fiction
Humor Sci-Fi & Fantasy 4 min

Coping with Change

The seventh day in my new flat, I found a worm in the fridge. It was flat, black and dead. I quite like interesting animals, but not this one – it looked remarkably like a leech. Where had it come... [+]