Steven Dyer
Stories (2)
Filter by community
My Happy Place
On Wednesday December 9th I took some time away from from my work and went online to read my local weekly newspaper. We had long since stopped having a physical copy delivered - a sign of these digital times, however I thought it would be nice to catch up with what was going on in my local area. Five minutes in to aimlessly flicking through a plethora of adverts, I was about to give up, nothing seemed to be happening In my hometown of Bromsgrove, I debated whether to give up and check what Piers Morgan was ranting about on Twitter, when I thought I'll just plough on to the end. When I came to the announcements page I briefly scanned the births, deaths and marriages. Having worked in the library in Bromsgrove for over twenty years I knew a fair amount of people and was wondering if there was anybody I knew. As I glanced at the page a name caught my eye and made my heart go slightly faster. My brain however told me that all though I knew the name it could not be the person I knew. I went back to the name and read the announcement, I knew the name of the person who I had died and his age and date of birth. It was somebody who had gone to school with and grown up with but had not seen for about 20 years. He had died unexpectedly at the age of 49. I was shocked, Immediately a flood of memories came back to the forefront of my mind and I became quite emotional. I checked with a friend on Facebook and he confirmed the news.
By Steven Dyer5 years ago in Motivation
10 Scary films to watch this Halloween
So, Halloween Is going to be different this year, events have been cancelled, trick and treaters will have to stay indoors and even real ghosts and ghouls are running scared of the global pandemic. What better way to spend Halloween by watching a scary movie or two. Here are ten of the best in no particular order.
By Steven Dyer5 years ago in Horror
