Monosyllabic Love - She Chose Me
I got there. She stood on the road. It was by god’s grace that she was still there. She smiled at me, and the old days played in front of my eyes. Our old love…
The Ant and the Grasshopper
In a field one summer’s day a Grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to its heart’s content. An Ant passed by, bearing along with great toil an…
Chilling Words (3)
Another shift. I tended to view the van with a certain sense of trepidation lately. It seemed larger and more daunting each time I approached it. I looked at…
Awkward... Raffle
“Our last item tonight... Almond moisteriser, Almond lip balm and Almond Dry shampoo!” I stared at the item that the host was holding up while his helper…
Awkward... Automatic Doors
What a day. Lengthy classes full of grilling work and now I have fifteen minutes before the next class to grab something to eat. I rush down the slope towards…
Awkward...
“You’re late!” My first full weekend having my five year old daughter had not begun well. Used to a lay in on Saturday mornings, my body had been slow to wake…
Observations
Trapped within the metal bullet, people cram together like sardines in a tin. Personal space no longer exists in the cramped confines of the tube and you find…
A Blackness continues 4
Dark shadows creep across the gently sloped hillside, racing anti-light, mixing with the dark places under dead fall brush and stumps. The motor sounds are…
A Blackness continues 3
I ran down the gently sloping hills taking huge galloping strides, jumping from sawed off tree stump to dirt pile, bounced over large dead limbs taking half…
A Blackness continues 2
“You should leave though,” she said, and looked around at the treetops, and the darkening sky, “There are people up here these days that do things that they…
A Blackness continues
I stop again and listen, nothing but bird calls, creek sounds of trickling water, and some frogs on the wind, so I walk again up the trail. Over a dead-fall…
A Blackness
I stand on the soft earth in the evenings dingy shadows, under the trees looking into the ferns and brush. Somewhere down there I hear movement, cracking…
Visitation: an end
Nami could only blink and wring her hands. She picked over her words carefully, not wanting to offend. “Does it...doesn’t it come from the gods themselves, the…
Visitation: an answer
“Are you testing me?” Nami asked. “To see if I will act piously?” Ina smiled. She looked different than when she first arrived, Nami realised; her eyes were…
Visitation: a question
Nami found her heart beating harder as she watched her guest. It was something about the way she moved, or the strange flash of gold in her eyes which only…
Visitation: a guest
A woman with weathered skin and grey in her hair opened the door. Her name was Nami. She looked out and saw a dusty, worn woman, younger than herself. She…
Visitation: a knock
Ina had walked all day and into the night, and though by now she was dusty and worn, not a single door had opened to her. The darkened plains were endless, and…
Will I Meet Them Again
Tonight was the night. The night where I would meet my idol, Jake Bugg. Well, I wouldn’t say ‘meet’ persay. I was just really hopeful that I would meet him. As…
Home
He recieved a phone call early one frigid autumn day. “Shaun! You’re a dad; you have a daughter!”
September 6th
I fell in love on the sixth of September when you looked at me for the very first time. Your eyes told me that in every curse there was a blessing to be found…