Us
25 February 2012 Leaning together, head resting on shoulder, arm languid across shoulders, we bask in our shared familiarity. We feel the love washing over us, not the agitated passion of teenagers but...
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3 March 2012 Once upon a time, there lived a little boy called James. When James was five years old, his parents died in a car accident. James was messing about on the back seat and his mother had...
View ArticleThe Orphan
4 March 2012 My mother hasn’t spoken to me since she heard. I hoped once I published she would read it, not straight away of course, but eventually. I waited for the phone call to say she understood...
View Article1am Battle
2 May 2012 Middle of the night. Dying for a piss. For fuck’s sake. I pull myself out of bed before I can ignore it and run down the shivering corridor. My piss is exquisite. Back to bed. Already I’m...
View ArticleJack
20 June 2012 Jack trudged on, hands in his pockets. He could feel her anguished gaze behind him, and it took all his strength not to turn around and go back to her. He couldn’t go back there though. If...
View ArticleVexed
23 June 2012 Hard to tell what’s wrong, But anger swells within, writhing, Searching for a vent.
View ArticleBoredom
1 July 2012 I watch him from the window as he walks with the other ladies. I know he can see me but he doesn’t care. What was wrong? Did I not love enough? Was I not truly devoted? I submitted to his...
View ArticleDiscontent
15 July 2012 Unshed tears lurking And an ache in the stomach That nothing can cure.
View ArticleAn Ending
21 July 2012 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Yes. Your love is as blistering, as close, as claustrophobic. Not a scent of a breeze ripples through your attachment, and whilst I feel I should be...
View ArticleFlash Fuse
23 July 2012 A tiring day and muggy weather leads to short tempers. We both say things we don’t mean and the argument whirls out of control. Now we are sitting on opposite sides of the flat, hostility...
View ArticleFury
Anger radiates from his rigid back. His fingers slam on the keys. ’Fuck!’ An explosion, a geyser of vitriol. It’s not aimed at me, but nonetheless I am uneasy. Words bubble up inside me, some chatty...
View ArticleThe Leopard
He swore it would be different with you. Yes, he’d behaved like a wanker in the past, but that was because he just wasn’t with the right girl. You. Now he was, he would be so different. He just knew...
View ArticleCold War
Another day where we sit like two opposing armies, silent in the trenches. The first shot has not yet been fired, but it is inevitable. The tension is growing inside me like a tapeworm, filling me with...
View ArticleJack
20 June 2012 Jack trudged on, hands in his pockets. He could feel her anguished gaze behind him, and it took all his strength not to turn around and go back to her. He couldn’t go back there though. If...
View ArticleVexed
23 June 2012 Hard to tell what’s wrong, But anger swells within, writhing, Searching for a vent.
View ArticleBoredom
1 July 2012 I watch him from the window as he walks with the other ladies. I know he can see me but he doesn’t care. What was wrong? Did I not love enough? Was I not truly devoted? I submitted to his...
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