Last night in the pub I was sat opposite a very elderly couple. A gentleman, was recalling story after story to a rather mystified and confused looking lady. He told her, over several shared bottles of Newcastle Brown, about his father and the various attitudes he had held towards work following WW1. He was, I have to say, a very good storyteller.
So...30 years previously in Brixton, London, I'd had a conversation, in a pub, with an elderly lady who told me she had been born in a brothel in France during WW1 and was still wearing her mother's fur coat from that time, that very evening. And 10 years before that, I'd got drinking and chatting in a pub, to an elderly father and son. The father telling us both all about his experiences as a boy soldier in the Boer War in 1900.
It seems clear to me now, as a writer of MicroFlashFiction, that source material has a tendency to shift with the times.
'Write with your Ears', An 11.59 Publication
Steve Coel / An 11.59 Publication
