Decisions Your first flat was a mansion of young love, cheap wine, and admiring your cleverness. You picked dried yolk yellow and kitchen plaster blue from its curtain swirls, told yourself it was retro, bought a matching sofa. Of course, it didn’t last. You Gloria Gaynored to the next place with your sofa, […]
Lies honestly told – 100 words
After the storms – 100 words
After the storms Flashes rupture blanket gloom, rumble sets my snaredrum soul to rattle again. I strain for a door-kick direction, a boot drop, curse call clue. I sense waves of acid fury rippling towards me and I clench for the inevitable explosion and the weary fall-out of cleaning and meaningless apology. Flashes […]
Beach body
Beach body Sand dune hillocks undulate then redistribute as the storms pass Scratchy grasses poke unruly in the valleys, on the crests. Looked down on, from that cliff, golden sands luxuriate, languid, between frothy blue and the carpark. Closer it’s dog poo bin and vacant life preserver stand; pebbles and fag ends; spiteful pebbles […]
