Empty landscape Wind turbines rolling lazy in front of layered sky. Alto stratus, rainbowed crystals and morning mists retreating to the river where smoothed rocks chatter and turn. Stretched shadows from black bales, winter feed for cattle still cropping, hoof-deep in mud by the trough, flicking flies from rumps. That gate, its weary post […]
Goddess Wisdom – 100 words
When the solar wind howls it sets the magnetosphere spinning and Aurora takes flight. She stirs technicolour enchantments so ancient and mysterious, they spit in the eye of scientists with their coronal holes and ionisation. I yearn for the goddess’s wise blessing, so I go outside. My big sky is choppy with the distant M6 […]
Another thing you can’t trust – 100 words
Another thing you can’t trust They are only a generation from wolves, with blood on their teeth and head-back baying. Why would it stay when you tell it to? Instead, it’ll sit for a bit until a more interesting smell whistles shrill, from over there. And it will be gone. Not, of course, intending […]
Relic – 100 words
Relic Station commute, cloudy breath – warm coat. I slip my hand into my pocket and find, not hankies and the change I keep for shop doorway residents, but a mask. Paper cotton, ear loops and that unforgettable yeasty breath smell. I’d put those birdsong bright days of fear and wide empty roads away. They’d […]
