My descriptive writing needs a little work - ‘Her hair is BROWN and she has DARK eyes’. This sort of vocabulary would be barely adequate to play ‘Guess Who’ with. Blah, it is times like this that I would usually just stop - resigned to forever being some sort of inarticulate literary mute. I wonder […]
I knew I shouldn’t have come. The orchestra begins to play the gentle introduction; my ears succumb and the notes I have heard so many times before expertly unknit my defenses. I am not ready for what comes next, but I long for it and crave its violence. It arrives with perfect timing; the Cello. […]
If the moon wanes this night it will be the sign. Times change, fortunes reverse, and hope cannot persist for always. I have prepared for this coming period, it has been a slow approaching shadow. I felt its menace well before I could see or name its evil. I thought I could outrun it, and […]
I don’t know what happened this morning. And to be honest, I am not sure I should confess. It is another embarrasing tale regarding taking up commuting by bike. I have only being doing it a fews weeks, so its all relatively new. I did a bit of reading up before I started, I didnt […]
Raffy’s Tail
I don’t know when I cruised past my snapping point but I sit here now knowing instinctively that I have. What ever happens after today, I will never bounce back to the same shape again. The signature of who I am has been irreversibly modified. In a science fiction story this modification could have […]
So here I am redrafting a short story. I am trying to find a subtle balance between the emotional and passionate elements of the story without hacking it in to something contrived or sentimental. I am finding it quite tough and feel I need a break - some distance. I decide to take a break, […]
She sat cross-legged on the South Bank wall overlooking the Thames. Behind her was the steady flow of late evening commuters and tourists. At 7:30 on a Thursday evening it was at its busiest. She noticed none of this; breathing slowly, and blankly staring into the majestic, wide river. The chatter of two nearby […]
When the thoughts in his head quietened, and the whirlwind of work clutter faded from his mind, he thought of her. She drifted stealthily into his vision without any prior consent. It would be seconds of a day dream later that realisation came and he would attempt to snap himself back into reality. It wasn’t […]
How quick I am to capture a scream, to busily record its energy and resonance. How quick the electric flows from heart to hand, when internal conflict pulses through me.
but…
When the shadows are so loud, who listens to the light. Where is my pen when the mountains loom high, when my feet tread through their […]
I cannot deal with it anymore. I cannot analyse it anymore. I cannot walk back through the memories, making a film out of this one story. My fingers will not hold the camera, my eyes will not focus on the subject. I cannot watch the smiles of the past, knowing how the story ends. […]
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