Certificate 15

Ages 15 and up

Strange Bird

Do you recognize your self in the modern world ? Can you see the old ? What were you once ? Vigorous and cerebral Figure which fell Over ripe with...

Don't get too happy

The night before in Belfast, he’d won £600 on a nag called War of The Jonnys in the 6.55 at Clonmel. Having missed the race talking to a man in the...
Cherry

No Go

Read "Bagpipe Music" for the first time in many years today. So I wrote this. That's no excuse you say, and you're absolutely right. Bagpipe Music is by Louis Macniece and the following isn't.
Cherry

El Perro (The Dog)

El Perro felt as though he had dug every hole in Paradise. He doubted there was a hole in the world he had not dug. If it could be digged, he had dug...
Gold cherry
Story of the week

The Rock is broken

Mohammed watched the girl snap the stick of rock in half, then present him with the two broken pieces. “This rock is broken,” the girl said. “Yes,”...

Dogs

“Splotch is only supposed to have wet food, but I’ve tried what his owners gave me and he wouldn’t touch the stuff. I experimented with a couple of...

The Tent

I am the master, the chief, el supremo, numero uno, king of my domain, emperor of my tent. I can do anything I like in my tent. For ten hours a day I...
Gold cherry

Vinegar Showers

(CC 40)

Manifest

That´s the brew that´s the concoction...you can´t afford me -it´s a dog-eat-dog world and you are a cat. The addiction lies in the comparison You...

Whale greedily gulps (haiku)

Whale greedily gulps - dives deep with cavernous lungs for giant squid feast