I'm not sure exactly how it ended up like this — me of all people. But then these are the last days, so they keep telling us. It's what we should have expected.
Category: Fiction
Carnie and the Tiger
When I was little the VR games featured big animals – elephants, tigers and lions. They spoke English and took me on exciting adventures. They rescued me ... It was a come-down later to find out they're all extinct ...
Eviction Notice (A Play)
Mother Earth creates a human representation of herself in order to speak with “knowledgeable” people about their abuse of her. She is annoyed and disappointed.
Beacon
@NotMetOffice 1:36PM – 26 Sept First they came for activists, then energy department, now it's weather forecasters. #Clampdown. So scared ...
What A Memory Looks Like (A play)
Not quite daybreak. We hear crickets quietly chirping. A shadow crosses the forest canopy ...
The Great Awakening
As the firelight flickered, the children gathered around the old woman and she asked them which story they would like to hear tonight...
This twenty minutes of fury and sadness
So, next door there were these trees see/ Nothing much to sing about/
Time For Change
Pulling at the handle, I glance out of the window. The spaceship’s taken off with me on board!..
Narcissus
“Long, long ago, in an age of myth and marvel, there was a youth of singular, star-bright beauty ...
Doing his bit
A couple of vintage lawnmower frames were suspended from the ceiling. On a pole across the bar hung a selection of rusty scythes and shears...