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WITHOUT A SINGLE SOUND

when a tree falls in the forest where no wildlife is around does it dent the earth substantially without a single sound ? . when the night falls in...

24 Oink! Oink! Oink!

24 Oink! Oink! Oink! Two minutes later, Quin stepped back inside the Amberjack. The place was still mostly empty, except for a few local citizens;...

23 None of This is Personal

23 None of This is Personal Ted arrived at the Amberjack Restaurant, a few minutes after 5 that afternoon, accompanied by Eric Mann, Andalib and...
Cherry

Uncertainty

Doubts: Sterile clues lead me to wondering why I have no real knowledge – the map of life is clearly dangerous, too weary to take that chance so will...

Please Excuse Me

Please Excuse Me P K Routray “I was twenty-four, you were fourteen each other’s face we had never seen till we were united in nuptial knot by our...

Lilith

And now for something completely... No, not really... Oh alright, innovative, brilliant, sharp... no, not really either

Hooked on Phonics

So what do you say? Want to slip into something scripted? Words written rich, encrypted. A beauteous bode of prose in the know. A show on a roll. The...

Worked Over

WORKED OVER The mid-morning sun filtered into the third story, apartment window, obscuring the numbers on the clock radio. It really wasn't necessary...

Sober Tomorrow

Sober Tomorrow I must have slept, but it doesn’t feel like it. I tried to stop last night; I really did, but the first thing a drink does is switch...

The Slowfield

Marko was running through the slow field that surrounded Strangeling penitentiary. Behind him he could hear Warden Phillips say to the guards, "Don't...

Date Application

Please think of this as an application for a situation, Whereas there becomes a designation of a relation, Between myself and the lady interested in...

Invisible Angel

INVISIBLE ANGEL From spring’s dance around a Maypole, Thrusting up from a thickly fogged-in ship, To a fall’s fall from grace to a place nobody...

Andrea's Tale

Andrea’s Tale Chapter One Once upon a time, there was a little girl. Sometimes she had silver-white hair, like the bottom edge of a cloud when the...

22 The Shellfish Are Screaming

22 The Shellfish Are Screaming Andalib and Xavier were now seated together on a catwalk inside the MacKenzie’s oyster farm, with their legs dangling...

21 Honest Work

21 Honest Work Ted was again seated beside the outboard motor at the rear of the dinghy, heading out along the channel through the marsh grass, away...
Cherry

MELTDOWN

​ ​A child's view of his autism and epilepsy. Wheat represents BAD for him. My world is wheat; Orange, black and brown With scary firework flashes,...

first draft, A quick flash

A quick 10 sec. poem.

Unseen Britain - Not Much to do in Northallerton

After checking in at The Golden Lion Hotel in the High Street I began my exploration of Northallerton just as the rain began to fall. Having failed...

Having a Basho

Night pond - Frog jumps in- Sound of space.

Unseen Britain - The Golden Lion Hotel Northallerton, Yorkshire

The Golden Lion Hotel in the High Street of Northallerton is an old coaching inn and still has the archway at its front that is tall enough to allow...

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