The room was perfect white. Not spacious or sparse, simply white, the detritus scattered around it’s interior sterile and blank in design but stiflingly busy in practice. Ingenious décor for a jail cell, the sole occupant thought to himself. The whiteness would deny rage, if he’d been willing to express […]
Rough Draft
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What was once forgotten is remembered just the same lessons learned made vivid old names cried out in vain Moments long made history alive in present tense undead steps to dead ends too late for recompense Old journeys are now over tracks lost in choking dust with the next step […]
You feel yourself dying step by step but in the stasis even death is life, only death is life a challenge to the ending when the middle grows oblique when the beginning is forgotten and the story feels weak The narrative is endless though despite what you might think and […]
Closed eyes avoiding the inescapable avoiding the endless fall of a cliff face crashing down to bright rivers bordered by currents to consume Feet on icy paths glare blinding in the sun and with open eyes the desire to run to fall and fly to waters deep a moment to […]
Are you active or inert? They’d pared the greeting down to its bare bones. Perhaps to save time, time being at a premium in those days. But just as likely because no one wanted to hear the positives any more. They were a sensitive spot. ‘Are you good, well, happy, […]
Can you purge what is to be purged can the fabric be made clean or simply washed to hide corruption Can you empty the house and call it clear while the bricks still bleed dirt When the flood passes are the tide marks washed away or absorbed into the mortar […]
It was almost done. Although ‘almost’ could mean a lot. A year, ten, twenty – they could all be near the end. But it was certainly a long way from the start now. A long way from those initial taps of the hammer and the first few chips of stone […]
Draining the poison was a relief. The resentment she felt about the process was a minor price to pay. It dehumanised her, the procedure, it left her vulnerable. A feeling which, with the poison in her, would have been a problem. But as it was funnelled away from her blood […]
It’s a moment of occupation the ground below and sky above shaking and darkened by an invader you fear to look at And your home disappears a cell taking it’s place alien walls consuming once familiar streets And with a knot of nothing the occupied look on until skies clear […]
I can see those eyes that creature mangy, broken but vicious, fuelled by wounds inflicted when last we met Prowling with a snarl No killer, nothing so clean nothing so final though in the chase there may be wounds scratches and scars their mark more than their pain or just […]