Warning: this short story contains some swear words, implied nudity and chauvinistic ‘pigotry’, all deemed as essential to the plot.
“Finally, what took you so long? It’s a bit late to still be lazing around in bed. Here, take the bloody parcel, I’ve got a shed-load to get through this morning and I’m falling behind just by talking to you. You’ve absolutely no idea.” Continue reading “what did you just say? (short story 1,865 words)”
After a hard day at the office creating recipes for death on a massive-scale using famine and persecution, while saving some time for wanton destruction of cultural artefacts and so on, there was nothing Mao Zedong liked more, than playing with children’s building blocks.
you wear those pads
secured with elastic
under your feet
to preserve your beautiful arches
disbelief reverberates through the words
within your question Continue reading “down the years”
may I start by saying
it’s love me love my horse
you said before you left
I asked where is your horse
do I get to meet the creature
it would help enormously
with reaching such a big decision
…and goodbye
we drank tea together
in the afternoon
Mia and I
in the cafe where she works Continue reading “side by side”
wherever noise attacks peace
shhh!-man arrives
late at night and during most weekends
crouched still and quiet
shhh!-man listens patiently Continue reading “quiet please!”
Bolshevik Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov’s preferred soup was:
Tomato
how many times in how many years?
were we mad?
each time
the motive tabled to ourselves
evolved but came not to be understood
not by me, not by you
not by anyone Continue reading “make up break up”
how did we get them
we had no rules at the beginning
we were on fire, back then
six months on they swept through
ever so effectively
killing bright lights we’d lit Continue reading “the introduction of rules”
