Creative Writing

LetterHead has featured many poems, short stories and sometimes jokes, under the heading Gulp Fiction and all submitted by our members. This section of the website will include some of the best and most recent writings and will be updated regularly to showcase the imagination and literary talent here at Headway East London.

The Great Plane Robbery

March 26, 2010

Better known amongst the Shoreditch/East London criminal underworld elite, Tony (The Toe) Knee was a wanted notorious gang leader who, in 1968, masterminded a crime involving a London/Glasgow postal plane. …

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We Were So In Love But It’s All Over Now

September 21, 2009

We were, I thought, very much in love, but it’s over, we have split.
We have had to face the fact; it’s over, this is it.
We accept now that it’s over, …

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Bruce

September 8, 2009

Bruce eats mice, because the time is so nice.
And the influence of his vice.
He thinks he’s so nice.
And maybe he could find a price for his mice?
Indeed, he is, so …

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The Candidates

May 11, 2009

Are you coming to bed?’ Susie asked, ‘or is your entire weekend going to be devoted to the firm?’ Malcolm Cummings, Commissioning Editor for Watson Tyler (U.K.), the largest American …

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