The dragon flicked it’s tail, a short impatient motion, and sighed heavily through it’s large cavernous nostrils, it was of course asleep and dreaming of days when it had once soared through the air and of the cataclysm that had trapped it here. The sky itself had seemed to collapse in on the creature and […]
The grit stuck to her eyes, made them itch and burn, the humid heat pushed down crushing her lungs from the inside. Another brick was added to the load, her knees wobbled painfully. The smell of the flickering flame in the lamp, acrid and throat burning but it would not go out if it got […]
Whittling Wood (first published on Red Monster) I watched Dad for a long time, the way he would whittle the wood, lifting it regularly up to his eye staring in a vague concentration. He only had a penknife to fashion his little miracles out of the chunks of wood he brought home from the wood […]
Princess in a Bubble (First published on Red Monster) Inside a sphere on the pedestal of King Annason a tiny but perfect woman sits upon a gloriously large amethyst, gem quality and cut to perfection. She is dressed in brocade and silk and has streaming ribbons in her wavy honey hair. She is a princess, […]
There Was An Old Man… (First published on Red Monster) There is an old man whose wife thinks him insane and paranoid. He is scared of video players and cannot grasp the concept of MP3s but what he most fears are coat hangers, especially the old metal kind that are actually useful to the arts […]
Odd Socks (first published on Red Monster) One day the purple socks with yellow polka dots were separated by a cruel twist of fate – namely the washing. Left was left upon its own and Right was abandoned in the student halls of residences washing room where it promptly fell down behind the dryer. A […]
Metcalf stood back from the oily smoke. If he thought about the smell and what it was, he gagged; but he was the senior investigator in this mess and had to be made of sterner stuff. The plumes were from the incinerator designed to deal with foot and mouth outbreaks in farm animals, but the […]
The Teapot (first published on Red Monster) I spend most of my time sitting in a cupboard, in the dark surrounded by other ceramic objects but I am more spherical, whereas they are more cylindrical. They are open at the top whereas I have a hat that sits upon the opening in the top of […]
Fluffy Cushions (first published on Red Monster My cat is a beautiful white persian and loves to drape herself on the settee. Her fur is long and lustrous and thick and when she is curled up you cannot see her little squashed face nor where her body ends and her tail begins. This was all fine […]
Gnashing Teeth (first published on Red Monster as a writing exercise. At night there is a demonic demon known as Dentineous Gruesiosome. It hides in the toothbrush cupboard in the bathroom. When you are getting lax with the whole dental hygiene thing or have not eaten enough fruit it enchants the toothbrushes. Then when you […]