The death mask of the Urian king was life like except the colour of the skin and the vacant staring eyes, no iris or pupil. The King’s daughter, Uma, stood staring in horror as it was placed over an empty tomb. She knew it was empty because she was not scared of the Elementals’ wrath; […]
The Shrimp (first published on Turquoise Monster) I am hiding safe In a poisonous jungle Tentacle petals sway Pinks and purples Strong, vibrant Beautifully deadly I am hiding safe In the anemone’s flower Transparent and small Who could find me? Beneath a protective canopy Ignored, secure I am hiding safe As beauty drags Beauty from […]
The God was insane, it had been insane a long time, the pain inside it’s beign grew and pulsed and it wanted annilation, had been made for such. Made for a purpose – what had it been? There had been a man, one who spoke soothingly and stroacked it to life, it remembered the world […]
Here is a PDF of The Little Book of Spoogy Poetry – it’s a series of poems I have created and illustrated for my little ones and it is free until midnight on the 31st of October. Just click on the image below to download and enjoy 🙂
This is a picture book script I wrote a few years ago and am still working on the pictures for! I thought I would share it here. It was first blogged on Orange Monster. What Can You See Under the Sea! Can you see Carl the crab? He is red with lots of legs. Can […]
The rose sat there in the garden, beautiful and surrene, it had been a present to Mum but that seemed like a life time ago now. The cloud reflected sunlight seemed to illume it’s petals, I felt the tears beginning to choke me. I took a step back from the plant. I looked over the […]
The world was covered in a plague, the bi-pedal apes had spread out, there was not enough food for them and they ate like locusts destroying entire swaths of the bueatiful forests Demeter had planted, Hephaestus was given a task to make new arrows for Apollo to deal with this glut of men. Apollo had […]
Ebb stood at the Edge, under the dirty purple sky, her little lantern glowed feebly in the mist that poured onto the land from the void sea beyond. Black shapes fluttered above her head – the bats roosted in the roof of the rickety house she lived in. It too was cast in a purple […]
The ether was swirling in patterns beyond perception of the uninitiated and even those priests of the dark veil who had risen to the most exalted rank struggled to see what lay beyond but it was there. The banished prince from so long ago, floating in the chaos of another world a breaths stroke away […]
Lucy (Opening to this story appeared as a writing inspiration on Blue Monster) Lucy put down the phone and looked at her reflection, she sighed, as always she had a smattering of red sore looking spots, oh well. Justin had still asked her out and would be picking her up about seven. It was now […]