Read
How to avoid the seemingly anavoidable
Image:
In a world spun tight with worries, where shadows hint "impossible," we search for ways to slip through the cracks, to dance around the edges of fate...
- Read more about How to avoid the seemingly anavoidable
- 6 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1826 reads
People say I'm a dreamer
You meet Walter Mitty at a nondescript café on a drizzly Tuesday afternoon. He’s wearing a beige cardigan, slightly wrinkled, and looks like the kind...
- Read more about People say I'm a dreamer
- Log in to post comments
- 450 reads
Oven.
Sunday night I was excited. I was due a text to tell me what slot time our new dishwasher was going to be delivered. Their delivery times were...
- Read more about Oven.
- Log in to post comments
- 349 reads
Perverted Wisdom
Perverted Wisdom Born and brought up in a remote rural setup in a village curdled by rivers inhabited by mostly farmers other professionals were a...
- Read more about Perverted Wisdom
- Log in to post comments
- 310 reads
More — or less?
Oliver Twist came some kids to meet, to ask if they’d had enough to eat …
- Read more about More — or less?
- 6 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1942 reads
Bus Pass [but mostly BPL] Get into a Fix
Bus Pass noticed that BPL was not quite herself ever since their last top decker on the X bus. Usually fabulous and scintillating company, BPL had...
- Read more about Bus Pass [but mostly BPL] Get into a Fix
- 3 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 742 reads
The Calm Before
Friday was the calm before the storm. Calm Ernie, before Storm Bert. The sea in post-workout stretch-mode, was a particularly beautiful grey-green. A...
- Read more about The Calm Before
- 1 comment
- Log in to post comments
- 343 reads
The Last Night Chapter 8 Where the sun never sets
The Last Night Chapter 8 Where The Sun Never Sets 25 The cold light of a trillion distant stars speckled the infinite blackness The Strion Concord...
- Read more about The Last Night Chapter 8 Where the sun never sets
- 2 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 920 reads
Isolated (Ch 5)
That dinner felt like a blur… Dear old dad must’ve slipped a perc in between dinner and our usual dry-blunt rotation. Sprawled out, inconsistent...
- Read more about Isolated (Ch 5)
- Log in to post comments
- 348 reads
Pasture-Cleaners
Beetles that roll up balls of their favourite food source … cattle imported but their poo wasn’t suited to the native dung beetles …
- Read more about Pasture-Cleaners
- 13 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1574 reads
Yard Sale Chapter 5
The next installment in the book 'Yard Sale'
- Read more about Yard Sale Chapter 5
- 1 comment
- Log in to post comments
- 665 reads
Turning on the Lights
bulbs flash across the country
- Read more about Turning on the Lights
- 3 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1221 reads
The Quaint Cottage
The Quaint Cottage By Paul McCann Anto would be there every day in his quaint little cottage by the ocean . You could hear the waves crashing down on...
- Read more about The Quaint Cottage
- Log in to post comments
- 517 reads
Liberal Disaster! by Alfred N.Muggins
Image:
12/11/24 Liberal Disaster, electoral failure, They were so hoping, a woman would actually win in the macho States, But no chance, they prefer the...
- Read more about Liberal Disaster! by Alfred N.Muggins
- 3 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1300 reads
He's
He's a jazz poet and a blues poet He's a nothing to lose poet He sits there smoking, sometimes drunk Listening to Miles, Mingus and Monk Scrawling...
- Read more about He's
- 4 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1172 reads
Off the rails (IP)
I did not come to Dr. Jennings of my own volition. It was my wife’s idea, and she insisted upon it with such an air of resolve that I had no choice...
- Read more about Off the rails (IP)
- 6 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 2127 reads
My Not So Humble Opinions
When I was a child, there were certain big events that sent the atmosphere shimmering. The new Bond, being one of them. (Or, Bond being the Big...
- Read more about My Not So Humble Opinions
- Log in to post comments
- 243 reads
The wild Impalas
The wild impalas leap ten foot in the air and cover ten yards in one jump, their graceful shadows tell the sun of an unchained spirit Yet in the zoo...
- Read more about The wild Impalas
- Log in to post comments
- 627 reads
A prologue
A prologue to a story I'm just starting - love to know if it makes sense, its meant to be a bit vague as will be the experience of two seperate...
- Read more about A prologue
- 6 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 2225 reads
Bombs and Fronts
Yellow and amber snow and ice warnings for most of the country on Saturday. Storm Bert. An ‘explosive cyclogenesis’, bringing blizzard winds, making...
- Read more about Bombs and Fronts
- 2 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 812 reads