Read

A Nameless Soldier

The drops of rain mixing with my sweat. The heavy breathing of the soldier’s next to me. The sight of the enemy charging towards us. The weight of my...

A 2nd Poem About Joe Webb

My neighbor is a responsible drinker, he won't drink and drive. If other people were as smart as him, many people would still be alive. Joe will not...
Cherry

Paranoia

Monday 5th of December 2016, 9:12 pm. Dear Diary, today was just a current day, nothing much happened. Studying in the morning, working on the...
Gold cherry

Christmas Every Day

Following The Boy’s funeral I went to live with Mona for a week, so that she could “feed me up”. Apparently, after The Boy died, I’d completely...

Little Irritants

You part your socks to find the plastic thread-like clip …

DOWNTOWN ABBEY edith 1970

Edith and mary as old people After 28 years of dodging the Crawley family gatherings. Edith is coming home for Christmas. Maybe she is a glutton for...
Cherry

Her father was a thunderstorm

The years rained down on her like a child's spiteful playground punches. She was brutalised by the time in which she lived, a time, when those who...
Cherry

A gift at Christmas

Years ago, when Christmas was still Christmas and I was just a wee boy stuck in my room in the attic because of the asthma, and everything else that...
1 likes

The Christmas Heart

The Christmas heart is fragile, but has not shattered It sees the joy that could be, amid the chaos that is Believes in miracles in a stark and harsh...

On Irony

A joke.

Frozen Beauty

Long ago the golden Queen of Summer and the Silver Queen of Winter had a dispute over who was most beautiful and to settle the dispute they went to...

Zak

When I was very unwell earlier this year and in a clinic, I made a friend named Zak. Heartbreakingly, Zak found the world too much to live with on...

The Sat Navigator!- 1556 words

The Sat Navigator! - 1556 words This is a two person sketch but there are two other people with one line. Valerie is the Sat Navigator Pat is Jodine...

Window 18) A Messenger to come to prepare

John the Baptist would come to prepare so the people were ready God’s Word to hear, though still many wanted freedom from Rome, and to see Christ in splendour, not first an an urgent Rebuker and Teacher, and Saviour. [See …
Cherry

Whiteout Rewrite (The Black Market)

9. The Black Market “This place is very dangerous,” said Nick to James, looking shiftily around the street corner they were on. They were waiting on...
Cherry

Senior Moments at Christmas Party

I belong to our local Senior Citizens Association. I joined in order to play in the scrabble group a few years ago, but also volunteered to set up a...

A Belfast Christmas 1966

A Belfast Christmas 1966 By Paul McCann It was Christmas Eve in Belfast , 1966 . The milkmen brought their bottles and coal men brought their bricks...

God becomes touchable body

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] The Son of God, his final Word, now touched through incarnation; and through this man, observed and heard, was made the whole creation. …

Window 17) A king riding a donkey

A righteous king will bring salvation, and humbly on a donkey ride and so Jesus did, when they flocked to his side, with branches of palm, and praise from the psalm. [See …
1 likes

A Festive Season.

Fading Violas crinkle their leaves, December’s yellow Rose absent citron syrup. A flame of Poppies hang heads like half licked strawberry lollies...

Pages