Sunday night Where is the cuddle in a solitary journey? Where is the sparkle in the uniform laundry? Where is the laugh til you pee in a video conference? Where is the treasure in the online groceries? Where is delight in something else that is broken? Where is the shooting star in the never-ending […]
Decisions – 100 words
Decisions Your first flat was a mansion of young love, cheap wine, and admiring your cleverness. You picked dried yolk yellow and kitchen plaster blue from its curtain swirls, told yourself it was retro, bought a matching sofa. Of course, it didn’t last. You Gloria Gaynored to the next place with your sofa, […]
Lies honestly told – 100 words
After the storms – 100 words
After the storms Flashes rupture blanket gloom, rumble sets my snaredrum soul to rattle again. I strain for a door-kick direction, a boot drop, curse call clue. I sense waves of acid fury rippling towards me and I clench for the inevitable explosion and the weary fall-out of cleaning and meaningless apology. Flashes […]
