metaphor

Another thing you can’t trust – 100 words

January 21, 2024 By Ellen

Another thing you can’t trust They are only a generation from wolves, with blood on their teeth and head-back baying. Why would it stay when you tell it to? Instead, it’ll sit for a bit until a more interesting smell whistles shrill, from over there. And it will be gone. Not, of course, intending […]

Decisions – 100 words

June 15, 2023 By Ellen

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, […]

Herbal Medicine – 100 words

May 27, 2023 By Ellen

Herbal medicine when you start, it’s about pulling out the tall weeds the spiky ugly ones easy to grip, but thorny – quick tug and they’re gone then there’s the grass lush and even from a distance, but can you see the harsh invaders the imposters and the slugs? this is not the lawn […]

Imposter – 100 words

May 9, 2023 By Ellen

Imposter I used to have a hat. It was beautiful with a dashing brim made of the softest emerald felt the colour of spring moss with a feather that swooped. I swished a cape around me it was green like midnight forests and the velvet stroked my back. It fastened at my throat with […]

Caged by a metaphor – 100 words

May 6, 2023 By Ellen

Caged by a metaphor Hard-baked stone formed by an eruption of fire and fury and petrified by terror A moat of stinking slime patrolled by armoured reptiles with teeth like broken bar-brawl bottles Dense thorn-sharp tangles woven tight protecting soft, pale tenderness as it sleeps its life away A carapace of […]