2006: The Eighties Future

New writing from 2006, the year that was supposed to be the future when I was eight. Just the look of it - 2006 - makes me think of jet packs and food in pill form.

Stories in this set

An abecedary of our sex life

Submitted on March 15, 2006 - 11:01 | 1066 reads

Anemones are coy

Submitted on March 15, 2006 - 11:17 | 915 reads

Aurora Borealis, explained

Submitted on March 11, 2006 - 15:58 | 1016 reads

Conk

Submitted on January 31, 2006 - 09:48 | 938 reads

Gland II. London

Submitted on October 23, 2007 - 09:46 | 512 reads

Gland III. West Wales

Submitted on October 23, 2007 - 10:08 | 667 reads

Hilda makes money

Submitted on February 8, 2006 - 09:19 | 926 reads

If my house backed on to a sportspark

Submitted on April 11, 2006 - 10:17 | 817 reads

If the death of James Wilks had been turned into a short film

Submitted on February 14, 2006 - 10:24 | 925 reads

Jellyfish gurgle through the watercooler

Submitted on March 9, 2006 - 10:37 | 1074 reads

My brain would empty the discos

Submitted on March 2, 2006 - 12:52 | 911 reads

Neg

Submitted on February 16, 2006 - 09:04 | 929 reads

One hundred ghosts in the loft extension

Submitted on February 13, 2006 - 11:32 | 999 reads

Revelations

Submitted on February 13, 2006 - 17:12 | 989 reads

Secret Machines

Submitted on April 5, 2006 - 09:28 | 825 reads

Snag

Submitted on March 21, 2006 - 14:07 | 876 reads

The Clodhoppers

Submitted on March 20, 2006 - 09:55 | 1213 reads

The Day-Star

Submitted on April 3, 2006 - 08:58 | 946 reads

The Glass Collector

Submitted on January 31, 2006 - 09:50 | 963 reads

The strangeness gland

Submitted on April 4, 2006 - 09:30 | 945 reads

Two hundred and six bones

Submitted on April 5, 2006 - 10:46 | 1012 reads

Worldly

Submitted on January 31, 2006 - 09:53 | 925 reads