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A Love Story
Too impatient for the lift, he takes the stairs, the tail of his coat nips his heals as he swings his body around each corner railing between floors. In his …
Rock – Me – Hard Place
I don’t know what’s wrong with me. People never want to talk to me. Everyone just ignores me, walks past me, as if I don’t exist. I feel so lonely. …
Fallen Eyes
She doesn’t look at me in the same way anymore. I tell her everyday I still love her but she doesn’t hear me. She’s moved on. We used to take …
The Sting
The daffodil sits quietly in the garden bed. He flies towards her, rests himself on her bosom. He kisses her slowly, tastes her pollen, then he draws hard and fast, until …
Garden Gnome
The garden gnome resisted wiggling his nose at the smell of the coolant. She walked inside cradling shopping bags. “What’ve you been doing all day considering you haven’t been cleaning?” …
Fright Night
Guest post by Olaf I wake up and reach my arm across. I’m startled, scared unsure. My heart beats fast and I’m frightened. Panicked. I’m sweating. I look around frantically …
My Bus, My Lust
Guest post by Olaf Every day I get on the bus to go to work and I see her sitting there. Such a spectre of beauty I dare not ruin …
Rough Love
Guest Post by Olaf He entered her roughly and clumsily. It was his first time and as he held her tight she rolled her hips. He stiffened. She was a …
Like Clockwork
The clock strikes eleven times. The ghost of Jimmy Fowler parades down the mansion’s spiral stairs past the grandfather clock to the ballroom and seats himself at the piano. And …
It Will Be A Good Day
She’s late for school again. Her mum waves and drives off. She clutches her bag, enters the gate. It will be a good day. She has a nice lunch: a …
