TatTle – #12

The latest from Tall and Tiny Tales

Hello everyone,

It has been good to take a break, but it’s even better to get back into storytelling mode. Just 24 hours now until kick-off!

For the first time, the Tuesday Tale and the Friday Novella will be linked in these next two tales. They can be read and enjoyed separately, but the Friday Novella is a counterpoint in style, content and perspective to the Tuesday Tale.

Tuesday Tale (all subscribers):

Lizzy May

In a council flat on the outskirts of London in the mid 1970s, Elisabeth Mabel Bullen tells her teenage grandson stories of her youth.

Born in the last year of Queen Victoria’s reign, ‘Lizzy May’ grew up in Shepherd’s Bush, North London. The clever and obstinate child often found herself at loggerheads with a mother who had definite views about a woman’s place in the world.

Leaving home as soon as she was able, Lizzy May learned to keep her head above water in the typing pool, and dipped more than a toe in the Bohemian currents of the capital’s social life. Soon she met a charismatic RAF veteran who filled her life with vexation, thrills and pipe smoke – and more than a whiff of impropriety.

Friday Novella (paying subscribers only):

Tales from the Wood

Pauly Bullen is a soft kid in a fractured, schizophrenic town, learning to conceal vulnerability under boyish bravado and a sharp tongue. His road from child to adult is turning out to be a bumpy one.

Nan’s flat and her stories are a refuge from bullies, classroom tedium and the consequences of his many, many misadventures.

Will Pauly find his own identity amidst the clashing youth cultures of Seventies England? Will he and mate Jon survive their explosive curiosity? Will Mum and Dad find out about the babysitter’s day job?

Thanks for reading, and welcome back to Tall and Tiny Tales!