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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 →

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 →

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 →

- 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 →

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 →

What lies beneath this frozen ground? What need has driven us so? We awoke a nightmare. Our chains snapped like bare branches in this frozen place. Desperation clouded our vision.

White emerging from greyness – sadness, turning into the white, bright sky. Unreachable, too far. Below, wee black bodies are queueing down the thinnest path to enter. Trees like shadows, leafless. Remaining branches seem to be trying to reach the … Continue reading →

An Aeolian Ascension, mere sight is not enough; Sharp Boreas through your fingertips to touch, Floral Zephyrus filling your nostrils with re-birth, Old Notus bitters your tongue with the end of summer’s mirth. And finally poor Eurus, who whispers in your ear; … Continue reading →

The day was bright. Rush-hour traffic crowding the road like a shiny,useless junkyard. My eyes were tired,stinging and my head was pounding from a restless slumber. The noise, the anger, the frustration of the workng world did little to alleviate … Continue reading →

The last note rings out. Drifts through the world. The last note of the last song.  

I didn’t want them here. I didn’t. They shouldn’t have just kept them here just because Westminster wanted to, they don’t live here. This is Scotland and we should have been making the decisions and we wanted these weapons out. … Continue reading →