Age, age, does not weary them, but makes them get the absolute shits!   I hate this, I now tell jokes that my daily exercise is tying up...

Bridging difference Walk to the edge and jump off. Shylock bleeding out.

Dark, threatening water swirling far below drifted him back to her twenty-five years before.  Before famine, armistice, bomb dropping,...

It was an old Stonebridge with arches and thick sides. It must’ve been 400 years old. It was ancient. She was told to come to the bridge...

I form into bridge. Today has been a big week. Now for child's pose. David Today has a been a big week, from the downward dog, to forming...

Trees brushed against sky. "It's like a movie," she said. "How is that?" I asked.

“Movement.  T-men, squirters, could be locals.  Get Terp to ping ‘em.” “They’re coming around.”   Creeping a few inches, looking through...

The westerly wind winds down the valley so heavily that people become winded. It is hard to tell if it is a planetary or a primary wind,...

Lined up in our chairs, waiting to be butchered...I feel like I should know what it’s like to cut through someone’s skin with a scalpel....

The children sat quietly, cross legged on the floor. They were small humans, not above 6years of age. Far from fully formed, but getting...

‘Rare or medium rare?’ ‘Well done, please.’ ‘You’ll have to get that from a different barbecue, mate. This isn’t a crematorium.’ ‘Don’t...

Slowly. Very, very slowly.  Muscles imperceptibly moving. Eyes still, forward, focussed, rivetted, locked on. Mottled light on mottled...

Ms Johns stood in front of her senior school English class. They were good kids in general. Keen and enthusiastic.   ‘Predator from the...

"Miss, what's history?" "Cataclysm forming now. Tea once hot, sits warm."   We dreamed to be them. When scraping marrow from bones, and...

Maria pondered the painting that hung above the sofa in the small apartment she shared with Lincoln.  It was just two people sitting in...

Absence, obscene, obsolete, absolute.   ‘Paint the space that is not’, they said. ‘Express the vase of flowers through the absence of...

Presence? Nope Presents? Nope Absents? Nope Sorry folks – too hard. Absence? Absence of words to describe the presence of absence. Easy...

She looked out the window and cried. She was in despair. Her life had fallen apart. He was gone. Gone, but not only out of the house, but...

“Hey Siri. What’s the time?” “It’s 9:05.” 9:05! No wonder it’s so warm and bright! How on earth did I sleep until 9:05? I sit bolt...

We waited and waited…and waited and waited. His absence was noted and noted…and noted. Why were we always waiting for him?   His...