No escaping this

This piece is for a new magazine called tripod which promotes new writers from Nottingham, Derby and Leicester. www.tripod.com . The working title was Escape.
Cherry

Answerphone

A message on my answerphone, from a voice I've never heard, has left me full of yearning as I hang on every word. For my messages are usually, in truth, a bit mundane;

Arctic spunk

Arctic spunk I caught him mid orgasm on my bedroom rug. He said no matter how hard he tried, he saw hairdressers slick popping lids off jars.

Day 23 - Coming For Me

The diagram of red lights playing on the ceiling - some devil mark, some curse? Like Germanicus finding a slaughtered hen stowed beneath loose floor tiles,

What excites me

What excites me is when I look Deep, deep yet deeper into you eyes And see the love reflecting back at me Your eyes shimmer like light refracting rain drops

Priestess Under Occupation : Chapter 2

Priestess obliges the guard to give her pleasure after he threatened her with rape.

COACH

Sam Beason, class of 1988, sauntered into his old locker room. Not much has changed in fifteen years, he thought. He was back in Danville for the funeral of his Mom's only sibling, Jean Grogan.

ROXIE

Roxie Bennett, twenty-seven, felt she had lived twice that long. Life was dreary. Her plain attire, mousy brown hair, and close-set eyes did little to distinguish her from the crowd.

Nana

The soft blue stage lights silhouetted her. The small and intimate club was packed with eager fans, silent in anticipation, patiently waiting for their musical journey to begin.

'It was just getting down to winter'........ a cautionary tale of disappearances in London

It was just getting down to winter, with the last of the dead leaves blustering about along the deserted streets.

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