Every night I prepare for my death, every night it is the same, I feel no panic as I sink into myself. I feel nothing but sensation, not good nor bad just sensation. Now it is the slip slide of stockings over my legs or the roughness of the heavy sequins as I shift the […]
Wool (First published on Blue Monster) Tangled in the bottom of a green woven bag sat a scone of blue wool. It was the vibrant type blue of Thomas the Tank Engine and was hoping to be knitted into something for a kid, but unfortunately it was excess to requirements and had no bright future […]
The night was damp, not raining but a haze lit by the amber street lamps making everything glow a sickly yellow whilst moisture penetrated through layers of clothing giving that chill dankness. Amelia stood at the bus stop a ladder in her tights and lipstick smeared, mascara rims were growing around her smudged eyeshadow, it […]
Classic Moments filled Nazwick’s brain as he stumbled forward, the rain was heavy, thick almost and his hair was plastered to his skull like cranium. The girl was there equally emaciated with large dark eyes, the music filled up his brain, the conditioning. Moments, this was a moment. Her peach dress was soaked orange and […]
Standing coyly at the edge of the room, Belinda parted her dusky lips suggestively. Her skin powdered to a cloying white, a green square over her mouth and noise, another such square covered one perfect ear. Her teeth glinted in the light; a perfect contrast. Her mask was pearlised gold fading to glittering amethyst. Her […]
By the Severn turns of Hell how did I end up here? There is no way I can survive this, just no way, I’m gripping a slimy moss covered rock with precarious footing at the top of a white water channel with a rather nasty drop below into a plunge pull of jagged rocks! Eeek […]
Blight (first published on Blue Monster) The Blight struck due to it being the wettest August since 1912 and the young family surveyed their crops. The potatoes had gone first, the leaves mottled and dying with the fungus underneath. They had not taken heed of the warning due to the fact they were already plagued […]
Spirally shells (first published on Blue Monster) Deep in the mists of time lay the ammonites. These creatures swam or more accurately propelled themselves through a primordial time. Related to the modern day squid they were and they roamed, thinking little cephalopod thoughts. Then wham bam mass extinction and bye bye little ammonites and bye […]
When Aeolus was a young man, a real young man and not just the apparent youth he could always appear as, he decided to tour the lands and seas and heavens and deeps to see what was out there. He placed an opalescent cape around his shoulders, his blue eyes glinting to match the sapphire […]
Why they did it I do know but the weather war was very one sided, some said it was fear of immigration others a jealousy of resources. What ever the reason I grew up in a snow dome in a remnant of the peoples of Europe. Life was hard in the domes but I knew […]