Man shops A man makes his living from pretending to be someone else Lots of someone elses Impossible to tell if he’s any good because all the someone elses are alike A type, perhaps He’s popular, though Probably swagger, cheekbone angles, an insouciance sewn onto a leather waistcoat Not many men could carry that off […]
Aye IA – 100 words
Aye AI It’s the latest addition to the frightening list soon, they say, we wordsmiths will be unnecessary machines will vomit everything they need to get our messages across. Across where? Who knows? Giant buckets of dictionaries, heated, agitated until, with a burp of punctuation, a sentence escapes. A grammatically correct construction: born to be […]
Disproportionate response – 100 words
To-do list items – 100 words
To-do list items Friday and ‘what have you got planned today?’ Did you ask in the hope of surprise? Instead: ‘Oh, you know, the usual. All the jobs.’ Jobs that bookend my week – cleaning, tidying, dull administration tending the health of animals and people, houses and machines. When did this dreary dutiful to-doing take […]
Lost and found – 100 words
Lost and found Around 50 babies are abandoned every year in the UK – left in hospitals, doorways, bins, bushes and shopping bags. It’s criminal. Not just because a human will grow up rootless, believing mum didn’t want them, but because abandoning an infant is against the law – usually resulting in a custodial sentence. […]