“But it wasn’t where I left it! It really wasn’t!”
In a demonstration of violent manhandling that made the class wonder if Mr Greggs should ever have been hired in the ...
This is a place I don’t feel alone.This is a place I feel alone.…….. Yes. No. Run. Don’t. Go!Silence… Tick-Tock. Faster. Slower. Time runs (not). No time lost. No time ...
I saw a whole new world in poetry.Moving (not).Stretching.Motionlessly sitting.Baffling.Getting thicker… and thicker.Getting slower. Telling us we can’t afford possible tomorrows.Absorb your life.Embrace the moments.
I saw the world there. In ...
‘Push! Push Harder Barbra!’
‘This is as much pushing as you are ever going to get woman!’
‘Come on now Barbra.’
‘Don’t you “come on” me, you giant raging lesbian!’
‘I am not a ...
The wife lies in silence. Eyes bright, another night of no sleep.
She watched his chest rise and fall, imagines his stomach heaving through the burden of his fat – his ...
Nobody truly knows why they run.
You’d have to study their lose-limbed ways
religiously, and for many days
before you recognised the rhythm
in the squealing, sticky-fingered hive
that is the playground, alive.
I was a ...
Attracted as ever, by the sea, we lumber forward, bent downward,
Slowly succumbing to the pull of gravity.
It is, after all, inexorable.
Seagulls gawk as we trudge by, strangers turn astray.
Through a ...
It’s Saturday night and the sun has just set,
We all want to go to the bar.
But wait just a second, we cannot leave yet;
If we do, we won’t get very ...
The high-pitched tinkle of the bell. Kat has heard it so many times and yet, she involuntarily looks up. Every single time. A stranger walks in, smiles at her. Her ...
Inedible woman.
Ingest her lips
of little consumption.
Take with caution
from her bargain bin of bones -
a worthy purchase.
Skin dipped in sugar
and bitten by the paper cut teeth
of debauched fifty pound notes -
curtains ...
Andy knows he can have anyone he wants; it isn’t a question of ifs or maybes. He feels it in his bones, as if God carved something so irresistible into ...
The Dreamcatcher was given to Donna by Aunty May who babysat her and Paul. She couldn’t remember how old she had been, but she recalled the excitement with which she ...
Madame Brittan pulled the cigar from her lips and let the ash fall to the table, missing the seashell ashtray. She blew out mahogany smoke. The passing waiter coughed.
‘Madame,’ ...
