In The Attic (first published on Red Monster) In the attic of number five Ermin Street there is an old trunk. Now this trunk is not the sort you could fit a body in, oh no, it is far far too small. However, what it does contain is the severed head of one Mr. A. […]
Ballads of the Scientifica by Sarah Snell-Pym It is National Science and Technology Week so I have collected together some of my poems and science stories and written a song which I have put up on bandcamp.
It’s Raining (first published on Orange Monster) ‘Mummy it’s raining’ ‘Raining outside’ ‘Raining on the window’ ‘Raining on the roof’ ‘Raining on the cars’ ‘Raining on the trees’ ‘Raining on the grass’ ‘Raining on the puddles’ ‘Raining on the birds!’ ‘Raining on the cat’ ‘Raining on… Daddy!?’ ‘Raining on Mummy!’ ‘Raining on me!’ ‘Raining on […]
The girl shivered and turned in her sleep, sweat pricked the skin of her pale forehead, she mummbled and turned as if on fire as if in fever. The dream was back huanting her, one of those real dreams that tugged at her waking mind from the recesses where she hide it. The dream involved […]
Love Eternal I wither inside everytime I see the bueaty that was him – its there is a thousand faces – ever generation he is there – in personality, in body motion, in face and yet none are him. I look, befriend and cherish each I find but none are a perminate salve to the […]
Alaric sighed deeply, the pain from his crown barely noticable in his current state of mind, blood matted his black shoulder length hair. He had awoken from a dream of her again. A dream of the wonderous beauty; he felt too bereft to cry. Blood trickles were his only tears these days. ‘My lord?’ a […]
The sky had grown dark after the initial flare that had rebuffed off of the shield that enshrouded the planet. And now they floated a lost ball in the darkness, too far out to receive warmth from their dying sun. Energy from below, from within – geothermal, had kept them going in artificially lit cities, […]
Janice always knew she was not like the other children she couldn’t never quiet understand the strangely erratic games they played and they would glare if she pointed out it was was just mimicry of the adults. They blamed her ill fit with her adoption or gave it the name of various syndroms but she […]
Masi was working on her memory whilst tucked into her little coffin of a bed, the cannel rose above her and her current group would float down stream. She was trying to remember the name of the boy had befriended for the last group, she pictured him, tall and gangly and in trouble for knocking […]
‘Daddy?’ said the little girl with her already pink nose and wisps of honey hair escaping from bobble hat and coat hood. In some places the snow was deeper than she was. ‘Yes?’ said the tall man with blue eyes and an easy smile. His hand made thick by thinsulate glove held her tiny hand […]