Trust Can I be sure my car’s broken thing cost £340 plus VAT? Which of the 0.6% of the population who are psychopaths will I see today? What’s really going on in my healthy body? Will the drivers all keep control on the bend beside this pavement? Are they sober? Is this best-ever price cheaper […]
Strings attached – 100 words
Strings attached My love is unconditional – an animal born in viscera. Hardwired. Evolved. Oxytocin enchantment distracted me from my enslavement. The journey began with keeping that outraged and unshelled tyrant alive. Hormone drunk, I vowed to nourish and protect – no matter what – and my noble intention did endure the most unreasonable of […]
Hope – 100 words
Hope There’s an old man buying flowers twisted fingers fumbling for change, I smile and hope they are welcomed with a kiss and put into the same glass vase she’s used for years – a wedding present – because then I’ll know that love can be true and not just a story told to sell […]
Hag stone – 100 words
Hag stone Whatever I wear, like magic, it’s in my pocket. Smooth and comfortable in the heart of my palm. The tips of my fingers dance it over and over in the fluff and crumbs. I hardly know I’m doing it. There’s a rhythm to the turning tipping one moment into the next like the […]
4pm, Sunday, England – 100 words
4pm, Sunday, England A crisp packet cartwheels from the gutter – alone in its exuberance. The final witness, a thin black cat shrugs and slithers off to who knows where. Bare trees shudder and behind dead-eyed windows, gravy-streaked dishes are wiped and put back in cupboards. Leftovers decanted. Homework is remembered. We slump – mourning […]
In the end – 100 words
In the end The day went awry – trivial, irritate you to your core kind of awry: machines that don’t start and mess that won’t stop. You know, the kind… plans slithering through my fingers, time relentlessly cranking. So, empty handed, I went to the woods where dead leaves scurried around my ankles and blank-eyed […]
Park life – 100 words
Park life Have you noticed that parking spaces have got thinner? Years ago, I’d zoom straight in dead centre, first time. No need for experimental door pushing – fingers round the end – or visions of dented Telsa sides. Even the tricky corner slots: nip in – mirror, signal, manoeuvre – slickly, unhindered by a […]
How To Improve Your Posture For The Better
Posture is something that in our old age, we could be cursing our younger selves, for not taking seriously enough. It’s easy to have bad posture and there are many areas of life where we only make that posture worse. Improving your posture can be done with a number of changes that are small […]