The daffodil says it best. It’s butter yellow crisps into brown ready to match a dirt grave. ‘Summer is over’ it tells me. Stalks me with this fact along each row of my flower beds. The Evergreens look the other way, retract bloomless branches from their seasonal companions, worried next year they’ll […]
My first day blogging has been a very positive experience. I’ve got to grips with the whole concept and have discovered some great blogs other people have been working on for years! Perhaps if I work at mine it can become long-lasting as well. What I expected I expected blogging to be a lonely […]
Walking through the door, I know this isn’t our kitchen. Your phone is on the counter, my coat hung up on the back door. Maybe I can’t recognise, not anymore. It’s warm as I look down; an apple crumble is browning in our oven. I never learnt to bake. To leave it would be a […]
From his sleeping patterns people would assume he was jet-lagged, but he was just lazy. In fact, he’d never been on a plane in his life. He saw them on television though, as he forced more crisps into his mouth. His tongue complained, but it’s words were buried by fried potato. His phone rang. He […]
Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo has been voted the greatest film of all time by a board of critics and academics, fifty-four years after its cinematic release. The British Film Institute’s Sight and Sound magazine poll seemed predictable; Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane has won for the last fifty years. The magazine’s editor Nick James welcomes the change […]
Scottish writer Kathleen Jamie likes privacy. Lucky to be in a small crowd for an advance reading of her latest anthology, I learnt she also shares the rewards of her reclusiveness – astute life lessons. Quietly performing an untitled, unfinished poem for the first time, her words were abruptly fragile. I locked into her message, […]
Fresh, exciting, energetic and full of guitar magic. Bloc Party’s debut album Silent Alarm launched them into the Indie scene. It seemed they belonged there until their two follow-up albums moved them far deeper into the waters of electronica than critics and fans approved. 2008’s Intimacy failed to impress, resulting in a four year […]
What keeps coming to mind today is that you cannot have rewards without hard work. I believe you get back what you put in, in all aspects of life. This is something I have learnt in recent years, but now that I have set goals to achieve, it rings truer in my ear than ever […]
After three months he knew the cat hated him but it came as quite a shock to find out the dog felt the same. Jack inherited both from his brother who had decided to forego his responsibilities and travel the world for a year. When both animals arrived it was a cold day, but neither […]
Are all puddles of oil secure? I take my mouth to mine, suck, bask. I am it’s surface, potholed but sleek. It’s my wet, shiny, already dead suit. Can’t lick too much off. don’t care to see my skin. I will slip away as a word – a tired tongue, absence of […]
This short story explores the relationship between a young boy and his Grandmother as they bond over weekend visits. Taste for the Past “When was the first time you ate apple pie?” William asked his Grandmother as she placed his portion on the dinner mat. “There’s no chance of me remembering that boy”, she laughed. […]
Welcome to my blog. I am a young British writer and want to use this space to share my thoughts and creative writing. This will mainly include short stories, but also flash fiction and poetry. I start this blog because now is the perfect time: “Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and […]
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