Cherrypicked stories
Quiet Road.....................................25
Sound of the asphalt lorry beeping its reverse all day on the road outside fills my head. I get up in the middle of the tarry night - write again of...
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- 723 reads
Somewhere In There
I see you falling as if in slow motion And crash heavily on the unyielding ground And I am filled with a special devotion To the person within I...
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- 759 reads
Somewhere In There
I see you falling as if in slow motion And crash heavily on the unyielding ground And I am filled with a special devotion To the person within I...
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- 855 reads
Tea with the Devil
A young English woman meets her husband's uncle in apartheid South Africa
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- 971 reads
Adoration
Adoration "What did you say?" bellowed the shopkeeper. He was a big man. His voice seemed to rumble up from his belly, bang into all the walls and...
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- 913 reads
N. Autumn come she will
Autumn came to visit me today she glanced at me in the mirror, as a walked by. She never spoke she just looked at me, as the crow came to perch on...
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- 788 reads
Metalgeissen
You guys changed my life and I love ya!
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- 546 reads
Angel and the Elk
Every time I go to sleep it's 1975 again...
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- 986 reads
Lil
An old woman in a hostel trying to help a young lady.
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- 219 reads
F A Technical Hitch
A ghost is trapped in a computer
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- 450 reads
I Lost key
A first date goes horribly wrong
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- 409 reads
Watcher
Watcher Autumn, the quietening down of life, Patient, docile, led meekly to the kill. Infused with the chill smoke of bonfires and over ripe fruits,...
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- 307 reads
Nicked car karma
I nicked the blokes motor
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- 525 reads
Potholes and Speed
Bankrupt trucker on a white-knuckle ride
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- 621 reads
Never one for the road
I was never one for the road you know
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- 1715 reads
Verarbeitet
A normal day in a normal office job&;#063;
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- 531 reads
Rapunzels' Daughter
You are the everchanging sword in my soul, The flowering in my eye. The summit of strange vitriol, And love, that is our tie. You are the armpit, The...
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- 1130 reads
RUGS: Carpet Colony
Those things we sweep under the rug
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- 678 reads
H - Giant Aspirations
Don't interrupt the story. Or you'll have to reckon with Miss Braithwaite.
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- 381 reads
On the Beach
extract from The Last Days in Magendo, a novel
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- 433 reads