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 […]
Disproportionate response – 100 words
To-do list items – 100 words
To-do list items Friday and ‘what have you got planned today?’ Did you ask in the hope of surprise? Instead: ‘Oh, you know, the usual. All the jobs.’ Jobs that bookend my week – cleaning, tidying, dull administration tending the health of animals and people, houses and machines. When did this dreary dutiful to-doing take […]