: About Me

My name is Ascen Arriazu. I'm a new mum, poet, teacher, journalist and writer and not exactly in that order. I am also a wife, a sister, a daughter and a friend, and those are my viruses at the moment.

I am here to see if I can give some sense to my dreams. I keep writing and keeping it in innumerable folders without ever showing it to anyone.

At my age, I think it's about time to fly and give some more space to my creativity to develop.

I hope I can add something inspiring and useful to this world of words.

Nice to meet you all, whoever and whatever you are!

Ascen

My passion is ...

writing

I know too much about ...

language

My parents always told me ...

not to sing in public

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a journalist

My favorite memory ...

my granny's buiscuits

Why I write ...

because I need to, it is part of me

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Ian Gibson's work

My first job ...

cleaner

My best moment ...

the birth of my baby

My inspiration ...

sadness

Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Neighbors

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Queen Road seemed nice when we moved in but after three nights unable to sleep for the noise coming from the pub in the corner, we realised that we were not going to have much peace in there either. I had always been lucky with my neighbours, until I left home to live with my husband. The first house we shared with other ten people and so, not really neighbours but roommates, we experienced the first taste of companions from hell. Steve was strange and moody, one day it was a broad smile, the next the longest face. But things got worse when he started to get paranoid about our TV. He kept ...

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