“I’m sorry” he sobbed, voice jerking as it worked it’s way out around the tears. It wasn’t true, at least he wasn’t sorry that it had happened, although he may have been sorry to have upset me, if I was being generous. Or sorry that I might be angry, to […]
Monthly Archives: December 2016
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“It’s the youth of today, no respect. We used to respect our elders y’know, we looked after them. If you saw an old lady crossing the road or an old gent struggling with his bags you helped. Didn’t you Doreen?” Doreen nodded and sank her teeth into her slice of […]
I’d been dead for five years by the time I decided to stick my head back above the edge of the shallow grave that was Boise, Idaho. Why I did it, I don’t know. Being dead had been good to me, far better than life ever had. My postmortem existence […]
ET and Waco did mount up the sled shaking off cold and giving out dread in neon red camo they went out to ride with drinks in their hands and guns at their sides ‘Farewell’ cried the kiddies, their Ma and the rest ‘don’t come back deaded, our pride and […]
“We can’t stop here, this is Cat country!” It wasn’t the ideal line to hear from a bus driver, especially as he overshot my stop and picked up speed on an increasingly mad dash through Catford. I tightened my grip on the seat in ahead of me, getting a wary […]
When they tore down the Catford Cat it should have been a clue on the direction things were heading in. A ‘pagan effigy’ they called it and that was why they got away with it. Everyone knew it was part of some dark magic, they just didn’t talk about it […]
Mr Blaine was still shaking, sweat dribbling down an unhealthily grey face before making a visible escape from his ends of his nose and chin. She hadn’t expected this much of him, to still be conscious for one but also to have thought to call her in and stay at […]