Lunch story: Variation 0: Reality
I was stood outside the shop, eating my steaming chips and gravy in the cold when a man and his companion came towards me. He wasn’t particularly tall, nor…
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Lunch story: Variation 3: Meta
I stood outside the shop, eating my steaming chips and gravy in the cold when a man caught my eye. I wondered if he were lost or perhaps needed the time, but…
Lunch story: Variation 2: 1001 Nights
He tried to catch my eye and extended a hand out towards me. Nestled in his palm was a thick golden chain and a heavy gold ring. Perhaps he thought I had lost…
Lunch story: Variation 1: Paranoia
He tried to catch my eye, I wondered if he were lost or perhaps needed the time, but he simply extended a hand out towards me. Nestled in his palm was a thick…
Lunch story
This is autobiographical in an odd way. Today something slightly strange happened to me. I’ll let the my sequels tell their own story, but I thought it was…
Roger's fall
I nonchalantly flipped the tip of a wing as I inhaled from my Gauloises. “Where was I when Roger Darcy jumped?” I finished exhaling, grey-white smoke curling…
A moment of reflection.
The damp streaked bricks and moss laden rafters gave lie to the opulence below. Rich velvet fabrics adorned the walls, casting a reflected ruby glow from the…
Roger's fall.
I nonchalantly flipped the tip of a wing as I inhaled from my Gauloises. “Where was I when Roger Darcy jumped?” I finished exhaling, grey-white smoke curling…
The First Annual Kavateekar Conference
Good morning and Welcome to the first Kavateekar Climate Change and Control Conference. I am Erasmus L. Kavateekar, your host. I am Honoured that so many of…
And the meek inherited the Earth.
They’d crawled out on the 17th day, unsure what to do. The pizza deliveries had stopped, no more bags of home delivered chips and soda. Hunger had driven them…
Rephan and Deyru Kiyyun's vault.
The two slowly ground into life, the sound of stone on stone echoed in the chamber. On the left the alabaster figure raised a sword in its closed fist, dust…
The Trial
The attorney sat across from his young charge. She sat, trembling on the bench, unable to lift her head. “It is obvious that this girl, having found herself in…
Moonlight
Rose scented smoke swirls Round shadowed arbor figures, Lover’s stolen kiss.
Green Castle Circle II
The girl stumbled in the dark, throwing out a hand to a pile of black bags to steady herself, spilling rubbish over herself and the already filthy street…
What to do?
I groaned, half awake, and stared blindly at the dispensing slot on the wall, I tossed off the sheets, rubbed my eyes, stretched and yawned. What would it be…
Sunday dinner.
Finally settling down, I sipped at my dinner, the roast beef was superb, cooked just long enough to have that, wonderfully re-assuring, shade of pink. Carrots…
Life and characters
The thought that jumps from stem to stern tying in knots, itself to learn, the end, the pulse, the spark of life, deep feelings felt, the sharp knife of past…
A young man's confession.
“Dad?” “Yes, Luke?” “You know that when I went off to College, you said that if I ever found something out about myself, you’d understand, still love me, no…
Four walls
There’s a kind of slow crumbling, where pieces of a life are snipped off, like the limbs of a bonsai by an overzealous gardener. Where the world turns to city…
Time for Bed
I’ve read things I wouldn’t have believed. Authors on fire, dueling with bright sequels over minor plot points. I’ve read poetry that glittered in the dark…