Growthful Ping. New email informs me that the deal of the day is another audiobook promising to solve me – this time by showing me how to fix unhappiness to live my best life. It clamoured to join the others in a library of accusations about the: paths not travelled at all, friends neither won […]
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 […]
Crunch – 100 words
Crunch White glows at the edge of predawn blinds. Aliens landing? Nearly as exciting: it’s snowing! Acid sharp inhales and, eventually, blue light that draws the mountains closer. Crunch. Snowballs tight packed and launched on the way to school, put your big coat on… and your gloves. But snowballs are banned. Aye right. Crunch. First […]
