It is GothNoWriMo and I am attempting to write lots of horror and/or spooky halloween themed stuff this month – I am also sorting ideas for future writings 🙂 So here are my 30 story ideas for the younglings: 1) Dino Raw 2) Alien’s Landing 3) The Dragon Over There 4) The Goo 5) Vampyra’s […]
Remembering Us Written for National Poetry Day 2014 Remember the tide lapping at the shore How we walked on shingled beach War bomber fractured in the mudded flats Metal bones peeking at low tide Recall the estuary filled with birds calling You showed me the eddible weeds That grew there Warm salt, bitter Remember the […]
The air was thick making thinking sluggish the sentinial sat wishing for sleep knowing that none would be forth coming. The last 1000 yrs had been the same, sweltering heat and grit storms. It wouldn’t have been so bad if the heat had been dry and dusty but it was thick with humidity – the […]
Written for Bi-Visibility Day. Saving Heaven I’d broken away from all that religious nonsense several years before the incident, and was living estranged from my family for the effort. It was a Thursday when the knock at the door came. I pulled it open and an older man in a fine but dated suit stood […]
The pack of unlikely primates were bright but not the best equipped animals, it was amazing they had survived this far, their leader was the most intelligent amongst them. He’d killed all the other males but now as his group all began to be heavily pregnant or nursing small babes he wondered if that had […]
There’s a cat that appears at the back door sometimes, it has markings that make it look like a skull in reverse. It stares at me but wont come in. My own cats ignore it and if we attempt to put food outside for it, it pointedly ignores it until the slugs come – then […]
The liquid was cool and clear and had many many little bubble floating up and popping on the surface, pop and fizz and sugary smell, it drew her forward. Kimmy stared at the offered beverage her eyes wide with wonder, dark brown hair curled around her face but she did not move to take the […]
With the death rate nearly non-existent the population went exponential. It was an explosion, a rapid climb towards oblivion but we found a solution – sleep tanks glistened full of those who chose a way out, for now. Stacked high they formed walls and the walls grew. Citadels of the sleeping arose. Most left the […]
Written from Three Word Wednesday – deviate identify saturate Ismail was a cop, from a long line of cops, he had The Code and he followed it rigorously – find those who deviate, identify them and their acquaintances – then saturate their brains with correcting fluid. It was for their own and everybody else’s good. […]
Once upon a time there was a little toddler called Mary, who was given a small pink case by her cousin Annabelle. Within the case was a sparkly thing with lace and some silky pink shoes. Mary loved the dress and put it on straight away, then she put on the shoes and got daddy […]