I started this flash fiction as a poem to see if I could turn it into something with a bit more substance. Can anything ache more than longing? I had experienced heart break, loss of a loved onebut longing had a sweet ache to it not the ache of dissolution. Still her imprint on the…
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Love Story
Sam spent his nights usually in the arms of different women, he hated being alone but the thought of being “tied down” to just one person frightened him more. His friends romanticised his bachelor lifestyle even though it was laced with misogyny. Until he saw her. Passing the museum after work one evening he gazed…
Baguette War of 2023
The baguette war of ‘23 started with little pomp and ceremony in the aisles of Morrisons. The day itself had started lazily with the sun trying its hardest not to rise to its zenith in the sky but just indistinctly punctuate the horizon with its golden rays. The crisp morning was laden with frost bedecked…
The man in black
Light cast into the street as he evacuated the house quickly as another plate smashed near his head, venomous shouts were aimed barbed with the vitriol of his beleaguered wife. Spurned again for his folly and his roving eye. A plate Frisbee’d through the doorway clipping his forehead as he turned on his heel and…
Little Cartier watch
The delicate gold watch glittered on her thin wrist as she prepared breakfast, just like she did every morning for the last 30 years. He always wanted toast, lightly buttered and only two pieces which he would sit in the lounge watching the morning news before going to work, leaving his plate balanced on the…
Functioning
Needle punctured skin seeking the elusive vein before the syringe drew some blood into its murky brown water filled barrel. The two liquids fought for supremacy until the plunger steadily was pressed jettisoning its payload into the arm. Cheap adulterated street strength heroin and amphetamine cocktail fired its way though, affecting everything it met until…
Rot
Late one evening, just before bedtime, the phone rang and rang, and nobody answered it. Nobody had answered it the previous day, or the day before it. Its petulant call echoed around the hallway as Rot watched it. Something had to give. Desmond looked through his ancient eyes at the bare wall, running his gaze…
Geoff Was King
Sunlight coshed his irises with a hardened leather sunbeam as he staggered out of his front door, groping at his feet for the milk bottle. A sporadic forest of twig like stubble decorated his chin as a testament to sloth, scratching and readjusting himself through his boxers whilst gazing blankly at the world busying itself…
Collaborate
Flickering iridescent tube lighting brought the empty computer room to life as the students filed in. Lazily pulling out chairs, turning on the desktops , yawning, chatting, filling the room with low levels of noise. Stuart looked from the front desk at the 11 teenagers, dressed in their uniforms though trying to resist the uniformity….
Cogito, Ergo Sum
The dinner party was a success, the guests dined on several beautiful courses exquisitely crafted while savouring wines paired for each dish until the finish where coffee and bandy were served. In turn each of them discussing their favourite topics. The movie star talking about her most glamourous role, the author chatting whimsically about her…