International Women’s Day A genetic coin toss heads you win tails you’re a girl sometimes it lands on its end or rolls under the sofa – but that’s not a win, is it? Girl side up (generally) you get bosoms, the chance to have it all, femininity – whatever that might be – babies: the […]
Worm Moon – 100 words
Worm moon There they are under warming soil and roots, wriggling and writhing their way up to turn pointy faces or bums (you can’t tell which) to the eponymous moon. But they’re wrong. Lunar worms are lavae of American beetles spotted waking from frost by the Naudowessie people each March. Their North Dakotan neighbours call […]
Man shops – 100 words
Man shops A man makes his living from pretending to be someone else Lots of someone elses Impossible to tell if he’s any good because all the someone elses are alike A type, perhaps He’s popular, though Probably swagger, cheekbone angles, an insouciance sewn onto a leather waistcoat Not many men could carry that off […]
Aye IA – 100 words
Aye AI It’s the latest addition to the frightening list soon, they say, we wordsmiths will be unnecessary machines will vomit everything they need to get our messages across. Across where? Who knows? Giant buckets of dictionaries, heated, agitated until, with a burp of punctuation, a sentence escapes. A grammatically correct construction: born to be […]
