I see the season with its pea-green promise. Beguiling spring, scattering glitter on grass when we wake. I’m nose to nose with summer’s fragrant march. Yet I hear that subterranean preparation – stretching, bulging – and I whisper that I’m not ready. You might be trusting your tender flesh to breezy tickles and sunshine cuddles, […]
Baby – 100 words
New show for historic reenactment company
By AI Newsreporter 8 May 2074 The UK’s leading historic reenactment firm has unveiled its latest offering in their popular The Way We Used To Live (TWWUTL) performance. The new section, called Ticking The Actual Boxes, looks at the long-gone practice of allowing the public to vote for who they believe should run the country. […]
5 E-Commerce Markets Ripe For Competition
You’ve likely been involved in the lively world of e-commerce in some way, shape, or form, where the digital streets are always buzzing with activity! Even with the crowd, there are still some neat little spots ripe for the picking, waiting for fresh ideas and energetic entrepreneurs. Let’s take a look at five e-commerce markets […]
Rallentando (making peace with mud)
In order to preserve footgear of urban sophisticate, I slither free, laces still tied. Evening greens fizz: I have to go to the grass… under branches. My toes burrow in blood-warm ooze. Ghosts of sunshine. Wriggle feet down through surface soft to the stone cold earth. I lean in bark furrows. ‘Hello dear. What took […]
Memento Mori – 100 words
Memento Mori Sunday afternoon: (freshly unified) council recycling point. (Family estate) cars cluster –household waste only. Can’t actually recycle. Don’t think too hard about the garbage mountain: final resting place. Vehicles gape – last stage decluttering. Pitch the cracked mirror into the skip where it teeters on the roof of a derelict toy-car garage. Rug […]
If love was rain – 68 words
If love was rain Check the forecast. Again. Unseasonably damp or drought? Incantation for precipitation. Then, ah -refreshing, quenching, fresh. Plashing, plopping. You know -green shoots, petrichor, yada. Stand barefoot, gasping and drenched – torrentially triumphant. Drinking it deep until – there’s floods, cancellations. Driving drizzle and damn – now the roof leaks. Drips […]
