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 […]
Light Show – 100 words
What? – 100 words
5th November – 100 words
5th November Scorching faces, freezing bums. The Gunpowder Plot 1605. An effigy in your old jumper writhes and tumbles into the orange where ghosts of older blazes tangle in the smoke. As you gather half-hot and brave against the shadows, invisible eyes are watching from the inky chill. The darkness behind you is so […]
Beastie time of year – 100 words
Beastie time of year there’s a hard-winged moth clattering in my lamp shade windowsill mortuaries attended by flies on their backs buzzing grief spiders the size of your hand skulk malevolent as a daddy long legs dances by carelessly dropping a limb to the floor – after all, it has plenty to spare mysterious […]