Miscellaneous

The Music of the Dead

Midnight in New Orleans. The streets are empty. Windows are devoid of light. A sticky heat oppresses those attempting to sleep along this once-...

Why Do People Do The Things They Do

Why Do People Do The Things They Do - by Paul McCann . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K04hgGgyhuY&feature=youtu.be . He stands on the corner...

Crispin (Working Title) Part 1

The air is composite and fresh; Crispin sucks it in dramatically and as it if were forbidden fruit. Apart from the slow expansion and contraction of...

On the Pavement

Like a secret sign from gypsies, a dead rabbit lay on the pavement at the side of the road; in a side-street of low-rise apartments, one street back...
Cherry

Blue with Raspberry Paisley

It was round eight in the evening... they’d start rowing again, my mum and my dad.

Face the day

Having only recently written the words “Don’t fear the dead”, I awoke in my own private catacomb. Everything was still and silent in the impenetrable...

Autumn Days (Seasonal Song)

1. When Autumn weeps its golden tears; its golden tears of joy, I think of happy olden years when I was just a boy. On all the trees, the Autumn...

Crick

‘Hush your mouth,’ Mama said, wielding a wooden spoon, ‘the word is creek.’ But Mama creek is the dying sound of that which is already dead. Creek is...

Life's Soup

My mother cut a piece of meat from her arm. Tears poured from her face and blood spilled on the floor. My mother took her flesh and put it in the...

Trigger Warning: Skype Notifications

I can hear him dividing his attention. Ding! Type Type Type Ding! type ding! - "Alexis?" Type Type Type Ding! Ding! Ding! Type Type Ding! Type type...