Everette was starting to feel old, he was 42 and the stress of work was starting to feel like a bind, the excitement seemed to have gone. He was finding his efforts on the squash court to be ineffective too and keeping up with the kids coming straight out of college was starting to give […]
Rita Rainbow (first published on Red Monster) Rita the Rainbow skipped across the hillside chasing the rain shadow; she wanted a shower but the rain always just ran away from her. Behind her the sun smiled shyly and pretended not to be watching every time Rita looked up at her. After a while Rita began […]
This was first blogged on Snell-Pym mine and my Husbands personal blog and then later on Wiggly Pets as a webcomic type thingy. A New Arrival The lightbulb in the bathroom died. So we placed an order with Lightbulbs Direct, and a few days later, a parcel arrived: We took the new bulb – still […]
This piece of flash fiction is part of a lovely collection of writers from the South West of England called Kissing Frankenstein and Other Stories. Ivory Towers On the planet Ibis, covered in turquoise ocean, a young warrior stood on a white beach looking to the sky tinged green and the harsh binary stars. The […]
Alexia knew she had gone too far in questioning her husbands motives in the business deal, she had spoken out of turn she would have to work hard to make it up to him. She brushed her strewberry hair with a gilted hairbrush, her long pale hands gripped it too hard. Surely she was safe? […]
The death mask of the Urian king was life like except the colour of the skin and the vacant staring eyes, no iris or pupil. The King’s daughter, Uma, stood staring in horror as it was placed over an empty tomb. She knew it was empty because she was not scared of the Elementals’ wrath; […]
The God was insane, it had been insane a long time, the pain inside it’s beign grew and pulsed and it wanted annilation, had been made for such. Made for a purpose – what had it been? There had been a man, one who spoke soothingly and stroacked it to life, it remembered the world […]
The rose sat there in the garden, beautiful and surrene, it had been a present to Mum but that seemed like a life time ago now. The cloud reflected sunlight seemed to illume it’s petals, I felt the tears beginning to choke me. I took a step back from the plant. I looked over the […]
The world was covered in a plague, the bi-pedal apes had spread out, there was not enough food for them and they ate like locusts destroying entire swaths of the bueatiful forests Demeter had planted, Hephaestus was given a task to make new arrows for Apollo to deal with this glut of men. Apollo had […]
Ebb stood at the Edge, under the dirty purple sky, her little lantern glowed feebly in the mist that poured onto the land from the void sea beyond. Black shapes fluttered above her head – the bats roosted in the roof of the rickety house she lived in. It too was cast in a purple […]