Below (The King Under The Mountain)

below, beneath, down there. Where? Image is Barbarossa and in the Public Domain.
Cherry

Someone's Daughter

She was someone's daughter. And now, I have daughters too. So, these days, I can understand why he hated this world and every man alive in it. Because he knew, as I know.

Rain watching

Mesmerised by the rain Jumping flashes of light on stone Fireflies and glow-worms Spooling sparking threads Tadpoles darting In the pool of the streetlamp’s reflection.
Cherry

Goosebumps

'the power of cheap music'
Cherry

February Morning

Not postmodern, not didactic, not navel gazing. Just a bucolic, blundering lonely as a clod, poem.
Cherry

Breaking into Commercial Fiction

I've just got back from Loughborough Uni where I was attending the Writing Industries Conference. It was a great day.

Black and White:The Avenue

It was a black and white landscape. Black dress, white skin.

One

"How can I ever thank you?" he asked as tears streamed down his face.

No Valentines for You

You came into my life with passion untold You kissed me with such intensity Your arms held me tight to your body I just melted then My whole body swelled with the delight of your touch
Cherry

Time and Place

PROLOGUE

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