Outpouring Of My Melencholy Hors D'Oeuvre

A collection of tales so macabre, so grotesque, yet somehow sweet, that even the strongest stomach will find food for thought in this little menu of metaphors.

Cherry

Hard To Swallow

This is always the worst part. As you pass the park, the street dissolves into little more than an alley. It's here I was born, here between the clothes-lines and the chipped brickwork of some long-forgotten Minister For Housing. "Let's abolish the slums," and everyone agreed because it had to be done, no-brainer. But this ain't no concrete paradise, is it, Mr. Tory? It's a trackmark on the arm of the town, the stab wound in the gut of this body. Broken glass battles with broken teeth to pave the street, the council saved on paint by using human blood.

Comfort And Power In The Modern World

I look back with an almost nostalgic feeling over the past. All the drink, the smoking, the poverty, but most of all, the pain.