A Dead Romance

Tristan wakes up at 5am. It’s a beautiful Friday morning outside his window. He wouldn’t know because his curtians have been closed for two months. He lies there silently crying for about an hour and a half. He flips through photos on his phone for another hour. He spends the next hour reading old texts. […]

Shattered

The sky was dark. The tears flowed. Her lips quivered. She lay in bed. She stifled a cry. She wouldn’t wake the others with her pathetic cries. The tears ran down her cheeks and were absorbed into her cotton pillowcase. The future had been so bright but now he was leaving. Her body ached to […]

A delicious death

Through her great cat eyes, she watched the young impala innocently playing along the riverside. The young creature was trotting about, making great splashes. The experienced lioness looked on. Her prey continued to obliviously dance around. The lioness slowly crawled through the tall grass and towards the river. Her shoulder blades rose and fell in […]

watching time tick

Golden Scratched White Shiny Useful Worn Old Breaking Dirty My watch. My watch is old and wearing away with time. It was a birthday gift. I get complimented on this object frequently. Some say it looks ‘expensive’ or that it’s ‘classy’. To the latter I must agree but to the first statement I would […]

Breaking down

02:29 That’s what the bedside clock displays. 02:49 The clock won’t stop ticking and the tears won’t stop running. Crying into the early hours of the morning is her new pass time. The happy memories run over and over in her head, fuelling her tears. They run like a free flowing fountain. Her eyes pour […]

Part I

– On the balcony It was five past five. Jael and Christina were on the balcony watching the sunset. If you stood on your tip toes you could see the ocean from here. Past the buildings and past the palm trees. You could see the deep blue. The golden waves tossed as the sun crashed onto […]

Prompts

Here’s to all my writing prompts that were nothing more than prompts. I had great ideas but they were nothing more than great ideas. I thought I was going to write amazing stories using these ideas but no, I was never going to. Here they are… my ideas. Use them if you want. This came […]

Life Status: Okay

His life was okay. He would write when it wasn’t. When he was angry he wrote his best. When he was upset he wrote his best. When he was excited he wrote his best. When he was depressed he wrote his best. When he was happiest he wrote his best. That was when his poetry […]

Four Year Break

Why bother giving an introduction? This post is about the following and not what you’re reading right now. Jump right in… It’s been four years. Mary is 39. She’s had two kids. A daughter with autism. A son with a freckle on his chin. Her oldest is learning to read and her youngest is getting […]

Cursors don’t blink!

The moment she put her finger to her lip she remembered that her nails had been painted yesterday. That thwarted her unconscious plan to bite her pointer finger’s nail. She consciously put her hands under her thighs and sat on them. She stared into the blank page on her screen. […]