The thick, starless night enveloped the lonely figure with the smell of autumn, the season of mists. He didn’t know how long he’d been waiting in the abandoned bus shelter, he wasn’t even quite sure why he was there. He…
Sleep Evasion
Lay down, pull the covers up to your chin and close your eyes. Don’t think about how your roommates drank your expensive beer. Don’t think about how you’re even madder at yourself for not saying something. Don’t think about the…
Time Lies
I wake at eleven, only it isn’t. The numbers which assure me of the time have lied. I’ve gained, or lost an hour, in the uncertain darkness of night. My lazy lie-in quickly turns into an early morning. I curse…
Rain of Thought
The clouds were hanging above the city like freshly washed clothes. Everything was dripping with grey and gardens of black umbrellas bloomed every morning as the people hurried to work. The creaking of wellingtons, the whooshing of the raincoats’ wings…
Clinging On
I knew from the first day – from the moment the removal men left – that I wanted to leave. I closed the door behind them, and took a deep breath. I turned to face the hallway. Mess. Muddle. Cardboard…
Miss Ellie-Louise at the Diner
I knows he’s alookin’ at me. I just knows he is. Starin’ with that there green glass eye of his. Willin’ me to go over an’ ask for some sugar to go in his foul tastin’ coffee. Every time I…
