The love of laundry Your clothes are puddled, shorts, pants, socks nested. Pocket with a lolly stick broken in three place and two seashells, not from the same creature. It smells of your outdoors body. The evidence of slide tackles will need that pink stuff, so I rub it in with my finger. Later […]
The Bomb – 100 words
The bomb A person is only organs, electricity and water, carried in a bag of skin, stuffed with preferences and love, stories and regrets: a life compressed. Yet, sometimes you think you’re nothing important, one speck of humanity in the brutal desert of history. Who’d even notice …? Know there will be an explosion […]
Mysteries (unsolved) – 100 words
Mysteries (unsolved) I found a pillowcase the other day it wasn’t mine, I’m certain. But, then again, my life is full of things I don’t recognise, I can’t work out, and I don’t remember, so I shouldn’t have been surprised. There’s the little blue dish with the dots (yellow), the other black walking jacket (size […]
