Monthly Archives: February 2012

Cotton Wool

Posted on February 27, 2012 by

The room I ran into was full of the yellow light of my mother’s vanity mirror and the heavy scent of perfume. I stopped abruptly in front of the mirror to gently finger the colourful glass bottles holding the scent; … Continue reading →

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Stories

Posted on February 27, 2012 by

Open marshes are dangerous places, like the minds of young girls. They’ll suck you in with innocent grin, and chase you out with your fear. Run away from the open window – real life ghosts cannot return from boggy death.

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Success in Haiku

Posted on February 27, 2012 by

Chasing seconds the sun moves across the sky, to my mortality.

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Failures in Haiku

Posted on February 27, 2012 by

Dry skin, cracks on the back of these ageing hands. Time ticks on, eternally. Numbers patiently wait for shadows to fall on their moment.

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Causeway/Cabhsair

Posted on February 24, 2012 by

Causeway/Cabhsair is a unique magazine which aims to publish new creative work by Irish and Scottish writers in all the languages and dialects of both countries, as well as reviews. It is published by the Research Institute of Irish and … Continue reading →

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Five Steps

Posted on February 24, 2012 by

Her hands are long and grey and shaking. There are five steps between us. One; two; three; four; five. There are five steps between us. But I don’t think her legs will carry her down. She’s holding something red against … Continue reading →

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The Best Thing That Could’ve Happend

Posted on February 24, 2012 by

The window was wide open, letting the soft, warm breeze play about their sleeping bodies, tickling his eyes in to wakefulness. As his lids parted he couldn’t help but smile at what he saw. A vision of his Aphrodite carved … Continue reading →

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Old Man at Sea

Posted on February 24, 2012 by

My kingdom, my kingdom. My kingdom for a horse. For less, when the thought really demanded considering, much less. Much less for much worse, a swap. A bloody bargain now at its brutal crescendo. The drawing together of dark machinations … Continue reading →

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A Lone Magpie

Posted on February 24, 2012 by

A lone magpie perched In the centre of oncoming traffic, Picking through the remnants of her late mate lost. Sifting through the splattered carcass, searching for something delicious.

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A Storm Beneath the Clouds

Posted on February 22, 2012 by

A Storm Beneath the Clouds I gaze down upon the untouched landscape beneath me. Uncorrupted, desolate and beautiful. I rest my tired legs and attempt to absorb every detail with my humble eye. Every crest, every wave, every ripple in … Continue reading →

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The Ogere of Winston Primary

Posted on February 20, 2012 by

Her skin was a greasy grey fungus. Yet Mrs Foster wore a sugary pink jumper. Like an airy plump cake stuck atop a lumpy psychotic Iceberg. A tyrannical middle-aged Tiger Shark of an iceberg. All the children wondered, clinging to … Continue reading →

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A hot summer day

Posted on February 20, 2012 by

Walking on a hot summer day a day like any other one On the way I encounter old women and men sheltered from the sun   Some women wear black nothing but black for the rest of their lives They’re … Continue reading →

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The lights and the trees

Posted on February 20, 2012 by

You were the best in us Embraces never forgotten You were the best in us A Light in the wild Clearing in the trees Eyes that saw only what could be You were blind to limitations You were a cure … Continue reading →

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Cloister Cemetery in the Snow

Posted on February 19, 2012 by

Darkness. Only faint figures and gravestones, With rising jagged treetops stretching into open sky, Prickling above the mist and surrounding the gate to which only the good may pass.

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Ballad of Biff the Dog

Posted on February 17, 2012 by

Biff, brown Biffer the  Labrador bullet. Bolted like an avalanche of dark, frothy chocolate. Hillsides, glades, parks, the front bumpers of cars, all these places she went and more, never tiring, always grinning, never thinking. Especially never thinking.

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Tutorial Activity (Work in Progress)

Posted on February 17, 2012 by

What if? – Create a ‘what if’ scenario and place a character with key traits into it. With the seemingly endless cycle of going to class and going to work I hadn’t taken my phone off silent mode for a … Continue reading →

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in someone elses shoes

Posted on February 17, 2012 by

waking up at midday; half the day has disappeared before me, unaware and disillusioned to the world outside my own front door. I get up and stumble through my well-lit corridor, like an animal caught in the headlights and tediously … Continue reading →

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Existing in the Moment

Posted on February 17, 2012 by

The stretch of earth, sky and mountains makes me feel both free and trapped as the infinity of nature consumes me. I am both immersed in my surroundings and also completely free to the openness of space, lost. But soon … Continue reading →

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Places We Would Never Go

Posted on February 14, 2012 by

- Don’t touch that. Stop it. – Why? – It’s dirty. I was stroking a dead bird with one extended forefinger. The forefinger of my right hand. My left hand was tucked between my legs as I crouched down, careful … Continue reading →

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SOZOPOL FICTION SEMINARS Issue 19

Posted on February 13, 2012 by

Explore your writing on the beautiful Black Sea coast! May 24 – 27, 2012 The Elizabeth Kostova Foundation offers its fifth annual summer fiction writing seminar in the ancient town of Sozopol (Apollonia), Bulgaria. The seminar program consists of intensive … Continue reading →

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they are here again.

Posted on February 13, 2012 by

They are coming again tonight. I can hear them sneaking up on me in the dark. It is that time of the day again. They know I am weak…I could not numb myself with alcohol in time. And here they … Continue reading →

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What If…

Posted on February 12, 2012 by

Sometimes, in the morning when I wake up before you and you are lying next to me, smothered in sleep , with thick, sweet air keeping you warm and golden sun kissing your face…I look at you, lying they’re so quietly and … Continue reading →

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Growing up

Posted on February 12, 2012 by

I am studying at Napier University in Edinburgh and have done now for almost two years. the only ‘grown up’ thing I have done in the beautiful city to date. I spent a lot of my young adolescent years wandering her streets in … Continue reading →

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People Watching

Posted on February 12, 2012 by

A group of young girls sit at the table, giggling and laughing to themselves. They cluster around one girl in particular – the Birthday Girl. Her identity is as clear as day, she is the centre of attention and today … Continue reading →

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an honest verse of longing or a simple song of hope

Posted on February 11, 2012 by

trees towards the sky branches broken by age over leaves fallen no longer reaching new home on earth and to remain

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