The business empire 5/10

Constant Velocity Joint

The graunching of shaft steel, the bone smashing force of terrible torsion Scribes circles in your thin horizon, and blind you to the other geometries.

The Girl with an Awkward Grace

To the Girl with an awkward Grace and melancholy smile.

Estrella

He cheated and he lied, then he died. His last message was a single word, Estrella. His wife needs to know what that means before she can move on

The Man With The Saddest Face

Is love really in the eye of the beholder?

Friday Night

A satisfying fizz in champagne flutes, Queen bees converge on our honeyed table Flaunting fake tanned legs and knee high boots.
Cherry

Yaacob's Curry

’Hey, if it’s curry you miss, I’ll cook you one man, what’s the problem’. Yaacob was a new friend who’d gravitated to our small group of curry-deprived isolates.

Distance from Abbey's Home

The depredation of her sadness; Reflects how far she is from home... Despite the transpirations of badness... Oh, how she'll miss the days to come-

Dreamscape

The caramel-coloured stream, Cascades along the grey matter, Tea-like baubles float along the dark squares. The white clouds below the land we stand on. The dark sky at where the chasm should be.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008) shown on BBC 2, and directed by Mark Herman, is based on an adaptation of the book-which I have not read- written by John Boyne. Asa Butterfield plays eight-year-old Bruno, the son of a concentration camp commandant. Jack Scanlon plays Schmuel, a Jewish child of the same age, who is interred in the camp. An unlikely friendship develops. This is the fulcrum on which the story turns. Only, for me, it doesn’t.

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