Elizabeth Rose

Serendipity: a life lived in words

Serendipity is...

A showcase of work by elizabeth murray; short stories, articles, haiku, flash fiction, poetry, dialogue, and experiments. Like what you see? Contact me. I could be writing for you.


As unsuitable as this may sound to most, I’ve found living in Andalucia to be a cultural void. Yes, there are great Spanish festivals and processions, but after three and (read more)

Magnitude II In a lesson on trying to make the abstract more concrete, one of my students, a Guyanese boy, late teens, shares a draft in (read more)

The writing has not slowed...it´s just being placed in print publications and as we all know, this involves a longer process. In addition, a new job in Dublin has been (read more)

Sisters by Pauline Plummer

September 21st, 2008

First, read the poem Sisters by Pauline Plummer. Now enjoy the critique: The poem Sisters is a poem that would touch most (read more)

This time - a collection of three Elizabeth Rose Murray haiku published together. Read Poppies, Pensive and Riverside over on dogmatika.

Mario Petrucci kindly offered the following response to the critique I posted: "I was worried when you said "...the internet has limitations and a style of (read more)

It has been crazy. The claim of “back with a vengeance” was doomed from the start (as cheekily pointed out by Lucien Maier - see interview here). A (read more)

Its been a while since I frequented one of my favourite online underground haunts...read Restless on Savage.

A more gentle approach this time with Bait on The Beat. This site is going from strength to strength, and since I last graced its doors with (read more)

Magnitude* I There are a million grains in a 20 kilogram sack of rice. Give or take. It's a hard enough number to imagine, the kind that slips through the mind's (read more)