There’s One in the Back of Mine Too
“But, what did she do?” Sophie looked at him and could see the age in his eyes. Not even half of it was reflected on his face. Yes, he looked old, but that was just grey hair and lines on his skin. His...
View ArticleDon’t Drag Me Up to Speak
I liked Jeff. I met him on my first day and he seemed personable enough. Someone you could talk to easily.I didn’t get to know him that well, despite seeing him fairly often. It was always just...
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There wasn’t much sunlight that morning. Everything became washed out and pale. Grey rainwater had dripped down every visible surface, but there weren’t any puddles or dripping edges. It was all just...
View ArticleWhy Do You Do This to Them?
“I’m broken,” she said.“What have you broken?” I asked.“Me. All of me. I am broken. I have broken every part of me.” I looked at her. She seemed fairly structurally sound to me. Maybe a slight bow...
View ArticleThis is How We Measure Success
I looked at the thing I held in my hands and I was disgusted with it. All the time and effort I had put into it seemed so wasted. The end product was bordering on horrendous. It was just so utterly...
View ArticleTo Whom It May Concern
Sometimes your stupidity astounds me. Your sheer inability to remember simple instructions, let alone follow them. I truly believe that, if your ineptitude could be made gaseous, it could easily be...
View ArticleThe People’s Prince
Names are difficult. I still don’t have a reliable process for generating them. Sometimes they just appear, fully formed, but mostly they don’t. Mostly it’s sleepless nights and racking of...
View ArticleBee Trail
It’s a little weird to watch someone sleep, isn’t it? No matter how involved you are with them and how intimate you have been, it will always be weird. They’re lying unconscious and you’re just...
View ArticleThere Goes a Tenner
“You didn’t turn it off?”“I thought you were going to …” Dan gave me one of his looks. He did that a lot. I’m pretty sure he practiced them in the mirror while I was out. I knew full well how proud he...
View ArticleUummannaq Song
Why do I keep writing in the first person? It’s almost becoming a disease.Maybe it’s because I give myself so little time and space. There’s no room for anything to grow. So the only option I’m left...
View ArticleVictoria Kane (part 1)
Victoria’s head felt like a scab. Her hair was now barely over an inch at its longest. It itched intermittently and she couldn’t stop touching it. Worrying it.She had learnt several things in the past...
View ArticleVictoria Kane (part 2)
“What are you doing here?”Victoria ignored him as she walked into the office. Art was the architect behind her current cosmetic woes. She was pretty sure that he wasn’t yet deserving of her attention....
View ArticleVictoria Kane (part 3)
Victoria’s heels clicked on the highly-polished wood of the hallway floor. She stopped. Her heels clicked, but the sound was dull and didn’t echo. The ceiling was high and the walls were wood-panelled...
View ArticleVictoria Kane (part 4)
She was in the basement. The steps that had appeared in the floor of the study had led her down here. She had been impressed by how the trap door had closed up when she had stepped off the last step,...
View ArticleVictoria Kane (Part 5)
Victoria turned the screwdriver a final quarter turn and that was it: the new servers were installed.“Why do I still enjoy this when I do it every day as part of my job?”“I cannot answer that, sir.”...
View ArticleVictoria Kane (Part 6)
The training room looked more like a dance studio. A polished wood floor and a full-length mirror on one wall. Victoria was transported back to the horrific world of childhood ballet lessons. A world...
View ArticleVictoria Kane (Part 7)
Sam was Victoria’s oldest friend. At times, she wondered if Sam was her only friend. Outside of Sam, she just had colleagues and people she knew through Sam. Oh, and all the people she sometimes talked...
View ArticleVictoria Kane (Part 8)
It was past midday when Victoria properly awoke. She had set an alarm for 8 to remind her to call into work. There was no one on site who was directly in charge of her department, so she had to spend a...
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