The old house echoed with the sound of her familiar footsteps, the day she died. Standing next to her deathbed, six sons, graduating down in height from their father stood stoically at the foot of the bed. Candles flickering in all corners of...

The baby cried. A bustle of colour that signified the extended family watched on with pride. The rite of exorcism had been performed and the baby, splashed with water had entered a life with Jesus. The party began. A darkened figure moved...

Where the tips of the dying trees meet the clear blue sky, life stops and breath begins. Crumbling with root rot from the mechanical drones sent in to manufacture new, moderated, considered death, the trees are toppled one by one. Soon. A block grey...

I wandered sleepily at twilight, traversing this world and the other, neither awake nor asleep, feeling everything and absolutely nothing. My time to leave had arrived.

I was young, un-afraid and open-minded once, but that was a very long time ago. A time when I un-wittingly had a voice in a world of unspoken ideas, incarcerated for speaking out, I became fearful, stripped of my hope. The girl standing next to me received...

Behold the little bunnies, discarded. Memories unwanted. There was a time, you were loved.

Miss Pink flexed her bird catching talons, just like in a technicolour cartoon, but, with way more malice. Come to think of it, maybe not. I sat watching tv, an adult, horrified, at a toy story toon, decapitating a helpless plastic penguin....

A lonely lost bird sings on the washing line, sings so loudly, but there is no one to hear its song. She, Alice, sat for a day and a half waiting, but no one came. The sweet sadness of the lost bird’s song, permeated through the soil, the small root bound...

Being a symbol comes at a mighty cost. Day after day, I hang here, swinging in the gentle breeze, sweating in the scorching sun, with brief moments of relief during the thunderous rain. I didn't start out like this, I was happy, had a purpose, I could have...

Just a window, facing out onto a weather worn street, pigeons perched precariously, looking in, waiting for the elderly lady, the barest of shadows moving, the window opens. One by one the pigeons hop onto the misshaped aged window frame, as...

A place to start, my ship sets sail in to the unknown and it scares the living out of me. The living part of me I no longer know, or care for, until now. ***** This is a story about nothing. ***** I remember everything, I remember, remembering. ***** I am...

Come on Belle, come on… Belle’s big floppy ears pricked up, she leaned her stubby freckled nose sidewards into the wind. Belle, I can’t wait forever, come on… Belle sprung to her feet, turning towards the kitchen door, it was slightly ajar....

Words mean nothing. I am nothingness: Unimportant, vague, transparent, insignificant, invisible, of no value, lacking importance, until you name me. Will I sing and dance for you? Will I tell you a story? Will I behave as you see me? Will I...

We all slowly bum-slid down the wooden stairs, Panda, doll and me. “Daddy, look what’s on the floor”. I don’t think mommy liked it because she screamed “Daddy get rid of it”. I thought it looked strange, moving its body from side to side on the...

When the world ends who is it I will see, see forever, the last face I will remember looking at? When the world ends? I couldn’t believe I said that, couldn’t believe at all, when the doll sang to me, I cried. I cried because I knew my world...

Dear Teddy, I am so very sorry I had to leave, I didn’t want to. You see it all happened so quickly. Life happened and now I am here. Older, not wiser, not smarter, stuck in “the leaving” modus operandi started so very long ago. I had no choice then, left you on the...

When I finally arrived at the funeral parlour, the queue stretched out past the building’s walls into the car park. This was going to take ages. I had purposefully left it late because I hated such formal displays of emotion. The men stood in...

Walking away! Earthworm Jacob moving forward, busily munches through delicious rotting food when, there, innocuous, -: "Walking away,” messily scrawled on a small piece of paper. Stopped in his tracks Earthworm Jacob pauses. Pauses to ponder, never before, never...

Sleepless nights, tossing and turning, bathed in crimson moonlight that seeps through the narrow window slats. I never though for one second I could end up here, NEVER! The red moon is the only difference. Stuck out on that road, I walked...

Be Silent… Having the noise sucked out of a space systematically, year after year, destroying the natural noise filters. Tiptoeing through the kitchen had become a matter of fact action, unconsciously conscious. Tipping through space and...

For FUCKS SAKE!!! Don’t you understand I’ve had enough of your rubbish? A single pedestrian stops in his tracks and looks back at the small bald man standing at the bus stop, obviously angry with someone. Right so! The pedestrian, turns to...

Running, the endless running, away from, towards, around, meeting deadlines… All it took was one wish; one deeply felt honest thought and everything changed. At 13:02 the clock stopped… Gregory Pension, a rather large Springer Spaniel, standing...

Your dark eyes don’t smile, they squint, squint at me as you clasp your hands close to your body. Keeping you safe and repelling me, me the monster of your dreams, the monster you squint to see, the darkness only you can see. Under those...

The boy with the grenade stood beneath a tall oak tree. His face grimaced as the photo was taken. One moment. Thirty seconds later he was running after his younger sister as she jumped up and down in front of him. Their mother now held the grenade,...