dawn lippiatt

My new children's book

I’ve told you everything already. I know it’s serious, I called you. Am I under arrest? OK. Matthew James 37. Maddocks Farm, Joseph...

He was found in what was once a white box, a room with no windows. We had to storm the door and it took many attempts. There are two bad...

Wednesday12th July 1995 9.00 Nursery Day -Sally 2.00 Orthodontist- Tabby 4.00 After School Club Tabby and Jo It’s like a stuck record. If...

In my opinion, a photograph is pure magic. It has the power to transport you to another place, to another time, perhaps to another you....

The world is a canvas where paint glides on to a palette. Here, pigments are pure, untainted. There is a richness in their clarity. The...

There is a scar on my hip and another on my thigh. One tells the beginning of the story and the other the story, thus far. The scar on my...

It was time to get out of the water. And she called him. He came, bright-eyed, dripping and she picked up the towel and surrounded him in...

ANNA Brian, You’re dumped BRIAN Huh? But why? What’d I do? ANNA I saw you on FB BRIAN ? ANNA Don’t you think I have eyes? BRIAN But Anna,...

“Well that was shite. Bloody carrots were stewed. Again! You really are a waste of fucking space. I suppose there’s nothing else....

He was aware of blue lights flashing, people shouting, smoke, water hissing. Around him was large quilt that he hugged tightly to his...

Six, crammed around our tiny dining room table. I had spent all day making the lasagne, cleaning the devastation I had left in the...

It took me years to realise that he was anything but solid concrete That he was more like a lobster. A hard shell with soft flesh. He...

I’d like to say that this was a routine job, That i was having a good day and that I was prepared for anything. As it turned out, none of...

A redhead girl with hair as wild as her heart, a black eyed black haired boy folds his arms around her. Their faces are smooth, post...

Make, Make, Remake. Refine, revisit, redo. Rethink, react, reinvent. Rebuild, resolve, result. Review, rework, reassess. Remake, Remake,...

“It’s a little disconcerting don’t you think?” She turned and looked at him, this stranger that had materialised from nowhere. “Why?” She...

In my world, the Art World that is, the area outside and around the subject is known as negative space. The Negative Space. Today though...

She looked lovingly at her garden, touching a blossom here, a head there. They stood erect, regimentally placed in rows, and looked back...

I realised now that i had been drawing these faces all my life. If I doodled, these were them, if i drew a cartoon character, these were...