What is a birthday? An excuse: for cake, for wine, for pleasing yourself. Wear a big badge and a bigger grin. It’s your day – what will you do with it? A reason to celebrate – or a milestone on the way to the end, jelly and indignities on the way to the finish […]
Dryad – 100 words
Dryad I’m young in the woods with new-hatched insects, buzzing busy, and idle hop birds, indolent and dusty. I can see child hands, pressed on rock, in sand, digging and wriggling with worms or gleaming beetles, palm of night-green leaf crush. Kneeling to work and study knobbles under canopy ferns: my nest, […]
Too many tabs – 100 words
Too many tabs Upcoming birthday: the perfect gift Did I click to complete the order? Identify squares with taxis in them? Will it rain next week? Passport application – holiday admin Is it whole eggs or just yolks in carbonara? On the hunt for a tradesperson, available now, at a price that doesn’t make […]
Glimmer warning – 100 words
Everyone is doing their best… 100 words
Everyone is doing their best… Even the idiots, the dickheads and the pillocks with what they know; who they are. The prat doesn’t brush his teeth and say ‘today I’m going to see how many people I can irritate witless with my stupidity?’ No, he thinks, perhaps, his day is long, his lover unresponsive, or […]