Caroline Jane
Bio
Warm-blooded vertebrate, domesticated with a preference for the wild. Howls at the moon and forages on the dark side of it. Laughs like a hyena. Fuelled by good times and fairy dust. Writes obsessively with no holes barred.
Achievements (14)
Stories (122/0)
- Top Story - March 2024
Becoming ITop Story - March 2024
As dawn breaks night's terror with a sure and steady hand, the harbinger's scream has faded to an echo of memory. In its wake, nothing but a buzzy chirp and coo of conversation scores the canopy of my trees. The day rolling in is gentle, the air calm and cooling, with skies a soothing powdered blue. Dew glistens in dapples along my mossy pathways, coaxing the rising sun's warmth into the last of night's shadows where blood, splashed from kills onto the loin of my trees, remains wet.
By Caroline Jane4 days ago in Fiction
A Trifling We Go...
Cards on the table, I am a BIG trifle fan. It seems to me to be the dessert that has everything. Cream, cake, custard, alcohol, fruit, jelly... whatever you have in, bang it in a bowl in layers and celebrate something! It especially appeals because it is traditionally made to make use of stale cake. No leftovers in the bin will always be a win in my book. Team trifle all the way, and I stand by that even as I discovered today that the recipe for "trifle" was first published in a 1585 British Recipe book by Thomas Dawson called The Good Huswifes Jewell. Sounds a class read. Not. Still, times move, and trifle has with it...
By Caroline Jane27 days ago in Feast
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Never Lived in North West England in February
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By Caroline Janeabout a month ago in Poets
- Runner-Up in Snow Micro Challenge
The Endlessness of EverythingRunner-Up in Snow Micro Challenge
The police lights strobe across the white moorland in manga licks of blue softened and soaked by rolling drifts of dawn's breaking mists. The distant wintered trees hang as ghouls in the flanks, silhouettes seamed with indigo against a fading brittle grey sky.
By Caroline Janeabout a month ago in Fiction
- Top Story - February 2024
Misappropriation and Culinary Creativity for a Lunar New YearTop Story - February 2024
Tomorrow, 10th February 2024, marks the start of the new Lunar Year, and I wanted to create a recipe to mark the occasion. However, I have a fear that in my rush to "try new things" what I am actually doing is rather clumsily... God forbid, carelessly misappropriating a culture.
By Caroline Jane2 months ago in Feast
My Name is Caroline Jane, and I am a VOCAL Challenge Addict
My name is Caroline Jane, and I am addicted to VOCAL Challenges. True story. They are like my Meth. I was not going to enter this one, the #200 one, and then at the final furlong, I was like, "Well, what's the harm? Just have a wee punt. You know you want to..."
By Caroline Jane2 months ago in Humor
- Runner-Up in Misplaced Challenge
There Should be a Crack in EverythingRunner-Up in Misplaced Challenge
It is nearly a hundred years since I slipped off a coffin and tumbled into the gutter. It is such a shame. I genuinely thought I had made it that time. For a brief moment, lying there, out of sight, blanketed in the sludge of London's streets, slathered by trickles of earthly grime, I basked in the sanctity of decay, and it was beautiful.
By Caroline Jane2 months ago in Fiction