Marie-Louise McGuinness
@mlmcguinness
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@moonrabbitcandy @FictiveDream, @forge_litmag @bansheelit, Forthcoming BBC Radio 4, 2x Pushcart nominated, Best Microfictions 2025, Co. Founder @PrideRoars94731
Omagh, Northern Ireland
Joined February 2012
I've been so excited about this! My short story "Homing" will be featured on BBC Radio 4 on 7th November, Read by Charlotte McCurry BBC Radio 4 - Short Works, Homing by Marie-Louise McGuinness
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A seemingly ordinary day inspires a woman to reflect on what led her to this life.
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Today on BBC Radio 4 at 3.45pm and afterwards on BBC Sounds App https://t.co/IN0FQ23Pno
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A seemingly ordinary day inspires a woman to reflect on what led her to this life.
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"And underneath all the trappings of wealth and privilege, the one-time prince was revealed as nothing more than a dirty old man." Read "And the People Said .." by Hilary Ayshford in The Pride Roars https://t.co/AsGRC1aq3l
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"everybody talked about those poor kids left behind—what kind of mother could… a father… yes… but a mother?—" Read "When She Left" by @DelGeo14 in @GhostParachute
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her kids were all grown up—she’d cared and cooked and cleaned and cajoled and consoled and done the best she humanly/womanly/motherly could until night sweat wept through her pores, until her body...
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'And here I am, on a road I had long since abandoned, humming an old nursery rhyme for comfort; three blind mice, three blind mice — see how they run?' Today, on The Pride Roars, 'Mother' by Marie-Louise McGuinness @mlmcguinness
https://t.co/W7vH27dkew
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Another stunning piece by @mlmcguinness 'I know not to expect an apology. I know she feels no guilt.' A must-read ❤️ https://t.co/qat8Hf3Bt5
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'And here I am, on a road I had long since abandoned, humming an old nursery rhyme for comfort; three blind mice, three blind mice — see how they run?' Today, on The Pride Roars, 'Mother' by Marie-Louise McGuinness @mlmcguinness
https://t.co/W7vH27dkew
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We are over the moon to be able to nominate the following pieces from The Pride Roars for a Pushcart Prize, congratulations everyone! @fionaemckayryan @NinaMD1 @TLTomljanovic @JoyceBingham10 @sugarpigblog @DelGeo14
https://t.co/CT7hG12fb8
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"and dove hides in the freezer still awaiting resurrection" Read "A Museum of Waxwings" by @dilyswt in @ChestnutReview
https://t.co/CKwmtZyRCn
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"Debby told Anna not to worry; neither of them would get it, because both of them were bilingual and spoke two languages daily" Read "The Funeral" by @DelGeo14 in @GhostParachute
https://t.co/QGg6wSvZku
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They’d exchanged many pretend-smile hellos, you-again waves, don’t-like-you-much nods every time they’d come across each other in the past. But when they met at the funeral, Anna was not pleased as...
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Today, we have an Exquisite Corpse, a collective rant by our lionesses. "Today's must-haves are nothing more than tomorrow's junk." @hilary553 @JoyceBingham10 @DelGeo14 @sugarpigblog @TLTomljanovic Read 'Dear Society,' up at The Pride Roars https://t.co/sA3FwpHn2L
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An exquisite corpse - where each contributor sent their last line to the next writer as a prompt - that turned into an exquisite rant. Coming tomorrow!
We've got an Exquisite Corpse / collective rant coming up soon. 😍
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New on The Pride Roars 'Liberty, TX, Travelodge' by Megan Hanlon @sugarpigblog 'we stayed there six weeks one small room four of us two beds zero jobs' https://t.co/LxwXb83yhR
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I feel like it's time to give something back to the #WritingCommunity. It might not be Twitter's anymore, but we're still here. So, I'm offering free beta reading to 3 stories up to 1000 words. Tell me about your story and I'll pick three by Friday. Feedback by Sunday🙂
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The Pride is back! Check out this amazing piece by the fabulous @DelGeo14
"you’ve had a bad hair day all your life. Not straight, not curly, not sure what to be, pathetically insecure." Read 'The Collateral Haircut' by @DelGeo14 up at The Pride Roars https://t.co/v8A8yHpvHu
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Yesterday I was honoured to take part in the virtual book launch for Best Microfictions 25. Check out the Facebook page for cool readings from some of the amazing Best Microfictions winners (and me) and maybe grab a copy!!! https://t.co/lW05AnVme4
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Party event by Pelekinesis and 2 others on Saturday, August 2 202523 posts in the discussion.
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My little piece "Stone Mother's Lament" and all other nominated stories are available to read at The Pride Roars https://t.co/ORy8fgpfBn
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Announcing our Best of the Net nominations. Congratulations to our lionesses @hilary553 @mlmcguinness @pleomorphic2 @amybookwhisper1 Read their roar on our blog https://t.co/va4nUT88eO
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"The boy wonders if he will someday levitate. He thinks he’d like that as long as he could float out of here." Capturing the otherworldly detachment of adolescence, @mlmcguinness takes us to another world | https://t.co/lFFyaRiHBQ
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“He draws them sometimes, the alive eyes, using shading techniques he learned from YouTube. It is an act of remembering. He could never show her the pictures.”
Excited to have a wee story here! @pocketsmag
https://t.co/hxSp3BLdd8
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Oof, this brilliant story hits hard 😭
Excited to have a wee story here! @pocketsmag
https://t.co/hxSp3BLdd8
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