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"Granulated tastes great!" -A Well-Wisher Promotional Story

You know, a funny thing happened to me the other day. I was making a cup of tea in my kitchen when I realized, to my annoyance, that I had run out of...
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The Russian Doctor

( i ) In the smoking room of the Hotel Nuovo, Naples, Thorkild Andersen sat alone. A bunch of roses lay on a card table beside him. Outside the hotel...

Falling In Love

If I could go back and tell middle school me something...

Superficial (IP)

Where are you? I can’t find you! You’re hiding there below … find a kinship and respect a trust that can connect – no friendship shallow, polite and hollow: so take the risk to …

ELECTION TIME IS HERE.

The time is near to re-elect A government to guide us all. Choose wisely voters, think it out. We want a win and not a fall!! Promises flow at rates...

Westons Go West 1 - The Call is Received

April 13, 1873, 180 Wharf Street, St Margaret’s, Leicester Mrs. Mary Weston, aged 35, is sitting down in the living room, sipping a cup of peppermint...

Where has the rainbow gone?

Where has the rainbow gone that shone, with colours, bright? I thought it would go on but it’s vanished from sight. It has not gone, my dear. Just...
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Sleeping In And Going To Sleep Early

Good night. It's the middle of the day but you're sleeping. Waiting for things to change is exhausting. Wanting to feel okay is worse. So you sleep...

Omar's Diary to Friday 25th April 2015

Once again my man servant has not been able to fulfil his duty of maintaining my diary. He has been busy, again, up to last Sunday getting another...
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I’ve already voted

I’ve already voted. If I died tomorrow my vote would still count. I like the fact that the vote of one dead man would outweigh the vote of 250,000...
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Rambling

Rambled away – weather grey No road and mud suckled Muckle on Hold my coat aloft Breezed away into the day Hills that hug Jag-eyed vision of...
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Curriculum vitae

Once upon a time, there was a cute little boy with a crooked smile and hair sprouting out of the back of his head that refused to lie down. His...
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Childline

Doodle

To the woman who lives in 2C

I feel your warmth and I hear your breath, but I wish so much to know what you look like. I wish I knew the word in your language for how I am feeling, I would whisper it over and over again to you. I wish I could smell your shampoo, your neck, your sweat. I wish to hold you, to touch you back, to have a body that fits with yours. But I will take what I can get. I felt complete in this moment with you, your live body against my

A Moment's Measure

A Moment's Measure The whispers of spirits past confer with spirits present In the mist of time immortal you can feel the ancient paths Lives crossed...

Barcelona Midnight

Lovers sit in pairs on moonlight-less beaches I hear six languages at the same time it feels like 7:30am but it is dark and I struggle to find...

Childhood Memories

In the light of day lisping shadows case a slower, steadier gait carefree waves of childhood wash the sediments of sandcastles, listless moments;...

The Song of Forgotten Places

"Be quiet, Ewan." "But, Eve, the coach has broken down. We are in the middle of nowhere." I was beside myself. I am seventy-five years old and I've...

Selfish Unselfishness

Desire to please can stifle disclosure of personal preferences, rob others of pleasure of being unselfish – though none of us relish forgoing the...

Dreams 7

Emily: (i am looking at the clock. each moment seems to have the same magnitude, but i know, from experience, that some moments last a long, long...

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