Unordered Tales

Cherry

Aubade

the future feels like it's setting in the past's plaster cast but remembering won't heal the breaks from outside the first bird expresses space with...

A) somewhere in Birmingham

He opens his front door, and I am knocked backwards. "What's THAT?" He knows what "what" I mean without me saying. "It's my vegetable stew. I think...

Awaking

when I get up it will be in a light more bright than I've grown used to from well known nightmares I've followed you for whom all locks burst open...

B) somewhere in Birmingham

I stand wavering against the plastic table edge. I could do nothing till I reached Solihull, could I? Then what? Change, go back to Birmingham? What...

Bomb

morning sun bright as the warning for dynamite shines through a lace of lit fuses soon to explode in green flame

C) somewhere in Birmingham

I must be still bleary eyed from crying or something, because the guard's face, for a second looks dead, grey, then blurs back into normality, eyes...
Cherry

Colours I saw, walking

The sky overhead is lilac; bright lapiz lazuli swirled higher. Through bare twigs of beech a band of pale copper spreads above the curves and grooves...

D) somewhere in Birmingham

I am so selfish, just afraid for myself : what happened in the optician's goes through my mind over and over; I have seen a few horror films, before...