Neptune is Bound (first published on Turquoise Monster) Neptune is bound in with shame In a water cave so dank Walls shimmer green efferesance of the sea But it is not the sea Not the salt brine his tail fin craves In osterization A prison of his own making The Sea Queens wraith Imprisions the […]
Seeds (First published on Turquoise Monster) I sit beneith the flame tress Sipping mango juice Wanting oogarly In it’s milky sweetness The sky is odd here But not as different as I thought Edges too sharp The ground glitters Earth red and orange With large flat grey stones Ox pull carts With solum eyed boys […]
Galatic Death Throws(first published on Turquoise Monster) The Dead Galaxy Hung in the Vacuum A dark remnant Of a glittering time A ghostly structure Where the cogs seized Where the fire died Where there was an end to annihilation And the star birth The cycle broken the whisper of creation Silenced It drifted Dense in […]
The Daft Cat (first published on Red Monster) Minnie the cat was a daft old thing. She pretended to be the grouchiest, meanest “DONT COME NEAR ME” cat in the whole farm, and there were a lot of cats, at least five though sometimes visiting cats would lurk taking the number up to seven. But […]
Vanity (first published on Red Monster) I remember the red oozing down my face and the shock that it was cold, that I felt cold and I swooned, and sat down heavily. The room seemed to tilt and I waited, transfixed, wondering if this time I had really done it. If I had through stupidity […]
The world drowned in litter and most of the people with it, but Jacko was a bit insane to begin with – the sort of person who got obsessions and when the world collapsed he was into origami, in a big way. Whilst most survivors felt they had been plunged into hell Jacko was in […]
Jessica Was about eight years old when they moved to the Village, they lived in a cottage on an old derelict farm. Min lived in a tiny cottage just over a hedge that had gotten out of control and shot up into the sky. Min was an old lady with waist length course grey hair […]
The Artists arrived on an unsuspecting Earth; they arrived in shining spaceships curved into weird and disturbing shapes. It would take the humans no short time to work out why the ships were so disturbing and by that point it was a bit mute anyway. The Artists were sleek, looking as is they were made […]
Adriana shivered, the night had a clammy clinging quality to it and she was only wearing a thin cotton shirt, the cloying moisture of the air condensed out onto her ashen hair plastering it to her head. The streets looked deserted and bleak, most people had evidently decided that this was not a night for […]
Alex carried his tranquilised wife into their now empty home, the toys that were now obsolete scattered the floor and he pushed his tears down deep. The house was chill and clammy damp. The hospital smell was all over him but there was nothing he could do. He dropped Clare on the settee and picked […]