Administration It’s not the numbers that chill – they’re too big to make sense. Nor the screamed imaginings when you stand in these places, skin prickling. Not the pitifully twisted spectacles, nor shoes’ polished leather worn soft over bunions. Not dead smile denture mountain. Not returning birds’ lament for the lost. They aren’t the worst. […]
Haggis – 100 words
Haggis Take entrails of a sheep, add spice and stuff them into the animal’s dead stomach. Boil for hours. Stab it open with a knife taken from a live man’s sock. It’s a special occasion. The improbably delicacy will be lubricated by whisky and poetry and friendship at thousands of tables in dozens of countries […]
Growthful – 100 words
Hyperbole – 100 words
Hyperbole The worst thing ever is: yawning upstairs to find you didn’t put the sheets back on paper cuts the last loo roll square misplaced apostrophe’s bass beats leaking from headphones calls about your recent traffic accident steaming coffee, stale milk realising you clicked ‘reply all’ just when it’s too late… and that your mic […]
Planned outage – 100 words
Planned outage Gosh, it’s quiet only cars shushing past and the flop of a dog toasting her other flank in a sun splat. Get-things-clean machines stopped burping. Heat-things-up-machines are chilly. No clicks and rattles from keep-it-cool machines. The voice in brain, though, is still shrill. What are you going to do now? Maybe I could […]