As the room filled up they could feel the chasm of their loneliness expanding. Words were spoken, seemingly endlessly but none really seemed to be directed at either of the parents. Not personally at least, but perhaps meant for them, as mantras and prayers of condolence. Voiced with grimacing faith […]
Yearly Archives: 2017
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I promised your love an offering to myself which you said was true I feasted my soul on that loving foundation safe against tremors Secure in my gift I felt no fear in your doubt I saw only security And so I built on extending towers of self with us […]
The eulogies were beautiful. Weeping and barely controlled mourners outlined a saintly life, the sort which only ever really existed post-mortem and whose loss devastated individuals and diminished all else. Tyrone struggled to look on passively. This day belonged to grief, to sorrow. The anger he felt had no place […]
I was not alive until I wrote my own birth to start writing death I was not yet dead until the pen left the page and I found silence If nature made me then I will remake nature and claim my new birth I grew to fill pages and shrunk […]
… don’t know when I’ll be back again. And so on. This Sunday I’m off to Nepal for three months, probably. Maybe for longer, or maybe travelling on to somewhere else, or maybe dashing back as soon as I can. Who can say? Anyway, this trip is a mix between […]
Be fucked and wander on mate your future isn’t near your past is grey and dying for your present no one cares They said that you’re important the focus of the world but the image that they’re selling isn’t anyone’s but theirs So be fucked and wander on mate though […]
Eli scratched his nose, wincing at the half forgotten pain it awoke. Of course, the bear had broken his nose the night before. The ending highlight of a bad evening, only scattered images of which he could recall. There had been him, the bear and an otter he didn’t know […]
Sergei shook his head, trying to rattle out the incessant thud of the Techno soundtrack that was, for no good reason, blasting out to shake the foundations of the warehouse. It didn’t work. The building was full to capacity now, the stands erected around the walls heaving with stern faced […]
AVAILABLE HERE ON AMAZON! To mark the slow collapse of Western civilisation into the orange hued abyss of yuuuge egotism and the possibility nuclear war with the nefarious Chinese, I’ve put my novel Crashed America up for a free giveaway from the 2nd to the 6th of February. After all, there are […]
This is, possibly, part on of an ongoing serialisation derived from something I’ve already written. The plan is to put a new part up every Tuesday so feel free to like it, or follow the blog, if you want to see more. You can find all parts here. — The […]