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Perspective
Ignoring Laurie, he’s doing his best to provoke, in that way that only bantams can. And he’s thorough. Starting on the surface, contempt highlighting the undulations of her rind, the tight black curls under her skin, the silver specks gossiping about where her viridity is injected. She knows these ballistics are truths. . AndContinue reading “Perspective”
The Prince
Silent smiles. Slicing hot ricocheting wildly Spurting banter . Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly. * . Where is your albumen, your chalaza, your yolk? . Fifty to one The gamecock . It’s all I can do, the audience hears, to keep smiling after the way she’s treated me,Continue reading “The Prince”
the Cuckoo
Thursday night book club
Mary speaks like the visiting host of a sex-toy party. She over-seasons her talk with “ladies” (even though Paul’s always there) pronouncing it: lay – dizz reversed capital ‘L’s like little fence posts holding up the bunting and steel wire of her pitch as she conspiratorially appeals to our shared experience of stolen baths, leagueContinue reading “Thursday night book club”
Force
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/robin-hood-declares-sacrilege-world-4348677 Is it still called scaffolding when it’s raw wooden struts on the outside of the building, holding up the parts where gravity is swinging too hard? Like the frame I was sure they placed round the Major Oak, alongside the fencing to keep fingers and feet from touching its ancient bark and grain? TheContinue reading “Force”
Saint Valliant
Saint Valliant And that was the winter when we decided to start worshipping the boiler. It was so cold at that time. We felt as if it had never been cold before. We needed to wash, and clean our windows, and launder our clothes, and we had never chosen to notice those needs before then. Continue reading “Saint Valliant”
Rubik
I have stayed up all night trying to solve the Rubik’s cube . because its solution will prove my predicted future . but my failure will portend certain doom’s continuation. . I cannot trust my own thoughts to think my way through it . because I’ve had years to do that already, and : failed.Continue reading “Rubik”
July 13th 1985
July 13th 1985 We are still in sight of the Greatest Year Known to Music buthowever strong the power of loveyou can’t hold onwhen the race towards space rips you away from the shore and blasts you downwards. It’s quite the event; nothing like this has ever been seen or heardbefore. Are you watching? DidContinue reading “July 13th 1985”
Low-lier
You were just standing there, taking a leak. What could you do? You needed to go. You had pulled up: discreet. It was a natural and innocent urge. . Why was she prowling around, anyway? At that time of day. Alone. A vixen sniffing at a dog. Of course you had offered her a lift.Continue reading “Low-lier”