Jane Hyphen
Primary tabs
I have 153 stories published in
3 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 71922 times
and 135 of my stories have been cherry picked.
69 of my 850 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 74 votes
My stories
The Girl in the Photo
She’s just a girl in a photo We hold the corner and her gaze And whisper, ‘Don’t look down.’ There’s frailty hidden in the frame Cracks opened in our...
- Read more about The Girl in the Photo
- 15 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 599 reads
The End of the Evening
‘Can we move the table a bit Arni, I want to be in the shade.’ Arnold removed the wine glasses and placed them carefully on the ground, he held the...
- Read more about The End of the Evening
- 7 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 253 reads
Duka's Return
‘Enver, Enver, your lunch!’ The dappled shade from the pine tree is perfect for sitting and writing but he never gets further than the first two...
- Read more about Duka's Return
- 11 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 321 reads
Jack Mutant - Which Way is Down (part 16)
School no longer felt like a strange place. Jack had spent enough time on the Sandpools campus for the environment to feel familiar, occasionally...
- Read more about Jack Mutant - Which Way is Down (part 16)
- 4 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 161 reads
Teeth
Teeth, pale stones planted deep In pits of fleshy pink, glistening Within the black hole, the orifice Of sustenance, speech and breath Blankets of...
- Read more about Teeth
- 14 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 415 reads
I love the little loose bit
Posted on Wed, 30 May 2018
I love the little loose bit at the end, blowing in the wind there, it's brave but it works. May is the most beautiful month. Lovely fresh words.
Read full commentPosted in renewable 2 (second go at this)
False teeth, yes I couldn't
Posted on Sun, 27 May 2018
False teeth, yes I couldn't bring myself to include those, something creepy about them. We used to back onto a small cemetary where badgers would dig up bones, brass coffin rings and once some false teeth were in a pile of freshly dug soil!
Read full commentPosted in Teeth
I can just imagine blurting
Posted on Fri, 25 May 2018
I can just imagine blurting those words out because of the sense of duty and expectation from the people around you and then living two lives; the flimsy fake outer one and the real one swelling inside your head constantly. What a horrible...
Read full commentPosted in In the Next Breath
This made me laugh a lot! I
Posted on Sun, 01 Apr 2018
This made me laugh a lot! I can't decided which one applies to me, I think we're all in there somewhere. If the prayers said in church were anything like this the churches would be full again and you would have saved the church of England.
Read full commentPosted in Alternative Prayer of Remembrance, Easter 2018
I love the way you've mashed
Posted on Fri, 09 Mar 2018
I love the way you've mashed up the man-made and mundane with nature where there's always something fresh and beautiful when you look for it. Like one of those mixed media collages with bits of plastic and leaf skeletons, feathers and bottle tops...
Read full commentPosted in Walking home from shopping 8/3/18
You've illustrated the terror
Posted on Fri, 02 Mar 2018
You've illustrated the terror of losing control of your faculties here, like files all stored neatly in your head suddenly scattered in disarray. The frustrating thing is you know it's there but you cannot access it. I've no experience of...
Read full commentPosted in Lethe
I really like this, sums
Posted on Thu, 01 Mar 2018
I really like this, sums those road repair men up perfectly.
Read full commentPosted in Tarmac Adam
This is such a charming
Posted on Thu, 01 Mar 2018
This is such a charming tribute to dogs and their childish, eager to please characters. Where would we be without our furry friends, they give so much without all the heavy stuff which humans emit.
Read full commentPosted in They all rolled over
This makes me cringe, such an
Posted on Sat, 24 Feb 2018
This makes me cringe, such an accurate depiction. There was a stalwart of these types near me. I recall one woman talking about a couple with a child in the same year as ours, he worked in Tesco, she worked as a 'lunchtime controller' she...
Read full commentPosted in It's all about bread
I like how clean this is, how
Posted on Wed, 14 Feb 2018
I like how clean this is, how precise, no messing about. Life is all it can be, you can't say that too often, that's a rare moment to be cherished.
Read full commentPosted in Now
Pages