Painting away The chimney did not (…) enjoyable   No one enjoyed the experience It was deathly for all The chimney knew it would be...

She wielded the pale blue slipper like a shield and the bullets flew back towards him.   Fortunately, Apollo, god of the sun (and more)...

He hurled himself through the closing doors, reaching the room just in time. ‘Quickly, this way.’   She stepped furtively between the...

I looked at his butt, was it Santa I see? I prodded and poked to help him down. ‘What are you doing you stupid clown?’ ‘Oh Santa it’s me...

‘I can’t do it, Marge.’   ‘Yes you can, all you need is reach a bit further.’   ‘I can’t! My belly’s in the way!’   ‘Breathe in and...

Remember, remember, remember, remember   Uncle Rupe in Maleny, Qld. who married his wife in secret. She, my auntie Alex, was at Uni and...

The screaming, the blood, the pain, the sadness. I remember when I was young, only I never had all fun. I never had any fun. Basically,...

He sat and watched the fire during low, embers glistening and spitting as the oil wood burst tiny sparks. His mind was numb, not...

I wish I’d asked my dad more, when he was alive, about his war years. When you are young, you are only interested in the gory bits. Did...

Do you remember when? Where? What? Why? Who? How? Do I remember what, why, when, how, where, who?   Do we remember the same day, the same...

I forgot to remember Both Gough... and The War   Arguably, neither achieved much in the long run... No... Not true... Sorry... Spirit of...

Remembrance “I’ll send that straight to my forgettery, as my mother likes to call it.” Laughs. Everyone always laughs when I say that....

It is a mess!   They say: God bless this mess... I say: it is just a mess... And a mess gets in the way of moving around the house... you...

'What’s the time?’ Barbara, teenage granddaughter of Hannah.     ‘Bedtime’ - Jill, Barbara’s mother.   ‘It’s always bed time, according...

‘It’s all because of the bloody Romans.’   ‘What?’   ‘Aunt Lizbeth threatened to disinherit me.’   ‘Seriously? What did the Romans have...

'Again?'   She honestly could not believe that their entire trip was about to be aborted.   ‘I’ll take the train, drop me off here,’ he...

Time preferred for meeting: Thursday Time of meeting: Tuesday 11am That’s what the board said in the patient’s room. “Excuse me. Could we...

I arrived early and found myself alone in the place I had expected, well, what had I expected? I’m not really sure but everything was new...

These feelings are... well... grand... Such an old-fashion word... To use such a word in todays 'modern' poetry... Why... the very...

Sitting at the dinner-breakfast table he would cluck and mutter whenever the story of the minute was flying about. Four grandies from 7...