Blanket Under the cover of this fog, we have been transported – the house, the dogs and I – to a place of misfortune. Grey malevolence has poured in and removed the other people and their colourful optimism. We are marooned. There are no shops or schools or jolly pubs. Where the road used to […]
Missed – 100 words
Missed Moving boxes: finding cards. 20, no, 30 birthdays gone. Elastic bands stiff and failing. Some from family, the constant bones of a life – others just names, colleagues, playmates who blew through like gusts. I add up the ones you sent: Love, from D. With love, from D. Love, D. D x. Wish you […]
Let me tell you this – 100 words
Fell moods – 100 words
Fell moods They tell me how to feel with sullen grey desolation, rain washed and bleak. Dappled optimism negotiating with showers. Intermittent hope. And, oh my goodness, life’s worth living in outrageous splashes of purple and orange. That light reaches out and squeezes my heart. Sense everything; this moment will not come again. Fickle […]
Find inspiration, she said – 100 words
Day One – 100 words
Day One You have arrived, inevitable as hunger. A stranger with a suitcase of mysteries, neatly folded. But we aren’t friends. Yet… Does it matter if my welcome is cool? Or my star-lit arms opened with fanfare? Will you execute a plan, detailed and deliberate, or will cruel whimsy buffet me? Must I barter with […]
Resolution – 100 words
New year: new you. What’s wrong with the old me, the current me? The me that hurt, and worked on it, and fell apart. Put back together. Kept going. Achieved the things that, with your try-harder, get-better whip cracking, you want me to leave behind. In the old year, like the broken bauble and the […]
