Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Or - as in my as my former beloved once wittily informed me- ‘Absence makes the fond heart wander’....

“Hiya, I’m Miles.  6’2”, beer-bellied, broad with full Ned-Kelly beard.  I have a Sinead hairstyle (vale Sinead), lots of wigs but love...

Absent Absent Hollow? No. Gone Girl, alone? no, just invisible, not fully present, but mostly, just not. Absent "oustay oo-senta" in...

He sat, a stool staring out across the wide green valley.  Mountains each side creating a V of green amidst almost vertical slopes of...

Muffling dawn stirs, settles a cold mist and bows the soft brome.  The village bodach wheezingly, struggles onto one elbow, shakingly...

They stepped forward one and all to help where they could. The others couldn’t be there. They had a different purpose.   The monster that...

Cockatoo listens. Yaris serpentine belt shrieks. Plaintive song to one.

She was to blame, the siren. It was her fault. She lured them into things they didn’t want to do.   They didn’t want to hit the rocks,...

Those damn sirens!   Just when I had gotten into the swing of mopping decks in the relative freedom of mere shackles—sans being tethered...

Red heat blisters skin unless wrapped in heavy woollen greatcoats, shields, and gloves.  Goggles and ear muffs unable to stop pain.  ...

Heat and flames burning bushy eyebrows, aromatic smoke wafting, Nandolnd, the crumpled gnome, moves the long-handled broadtruele inside...

Two days until my wedding. I cannot move from this house. The locks are bigger than my head, the windows high out of reach, so high they...

Roger hates birthdays. He is "given" his own cake, but then forced to share. (And a special variant...) Vesna likes birthdays. She is...

Snow on Barrington, landscape remembers canvas, age-old crown of white.

Atmospheric water vapour, frozen into ice crystals, falling in light, white flakes piling up at the front door.  A mass of flickering...

We don’t know where we are. Something was chasing. Is chasing, but in all this white it will be chasing forever.   Cold without end....

Why is nature so cruel?   Who knows. But is it?   I don't think so.   Take the trees. They aren't cruel. Take the sea. It's only cruel if...

The party was in full swing. Mark was dancing on the table as expected, Jo was sick in the corner, Cath was running around checking...

I don’t know what and why people do things?  They just burst out with some rigmarole, some pansy-arsed drivel and expect people to...