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This is such a beautiful idea ❤️

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Beautiful.

Somehow, the image that came to mind as I read this came from my childhood reading: https://allisonsbookbag.wordpress.com/2014/09/09/are-you-my-mother-by-p-d-eastman/

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How interesting. Someone else was talking about this book just the other day. Perhaps it seeped in....

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The feathered and the flightless… exquisitely gentle words with that edge only you know how to perfect. Gorgeous Eleanor, every word!

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🙂🪶

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Sparkle and I just listened together. And we’ve both concluded that you’re very brilliant x

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Tell Sparkle she was my inspiration.

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🥹💛

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Simply astonishing.

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Beautiful - This brevity feels just right, so the story itself doesn't outweigh the bird. Go, little bird, go! I hung on every poetic word of the voiceover.

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Thank you, Tara. Looking forward to yours. x

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Just gorgeous, and the way you shifted between the perspectives of feathered creature and flightless human was movingly done.

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Gorgeous imagery!

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Thanks. Very much looking forward to reading yours.

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“I think of her in that tree with the view of Arthur’s Seat, the Scottish winds blowing through it, her second attempt or third, if she fell again, and wonder if a bird learning to fly thinks itself an imposter.” Ohhhhhhh. This whole piece took my breath away, Eleanor. And the deft shape-shifting — how? 🥰

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Dear Eleanor, thank you so much for this absolutely beautiful piece. This was from the prompt I sent it. You and Chloe Hope are both my favourite writers on here so this was just an honour. What you have written here has truly touched me x

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Oh Anna Rose what an honour! Thank you for giving me the gift of it. It honestly wrote itself, I had to stay real quiet and still to catch it. A joy to work with you.

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Oh my. I’m imagining the event that inspired this and feeling how you just gave this person wings. 🪽

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I've just read Julie's and I feel like she had the same experience as me, a piece that came out of its own, unlike anything I've written before.

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Beautifully written, Eleanor! 💕

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Thank you, Ali.

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This is lovely and perfect.

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Thank you,Ben. Out it came, and I stared and waited, and realised that was it there was no more so there we are.

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Such a beautiful thing to read, Eleanor. You became the fledgling bird in writing this. I love the references to the bird's instincts of the seasons and where it must go.

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Yes I was so swept up by that, by the deft shift that I went back and back trying to find where exactly that happened. It’s too well hidden. Amazing.

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It felt like that...

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Exquisite, exquisite, exquisite. Always a joy to read your fiction, Eleanor — I especially love your approach to short stories. It is the reading equivalent of eating tapas.

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Loving that! Tapas. I'll take it ❤️

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