Story

But blackness, blackness and stars like the mid summer night’s sky. Twinkling points of what was not really light dancing across what was not really vision. “I'm blind”, he said to himself...

Arthur gets from London to Bangkok with some help from the narrator.

He opens the door entering a dark and silent room except for the sound and light of the television. Picking up the remote from the end table, he turns off the television.

"WHAT WAS THAT!" he said, scared out of his wits.
"What?" Moggins said wearily getting up out of his bed.
"SOMETHING TOUCHED ME BOTTOM!" Red Tail said rather annoyed and freaked out.

'Get in, get out. Don't linger. Go on'. Raymond Carver on why he wrote short stories and poems and not novels in "On Writing," it is included in "Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories" (Harvill Press) .

There are few things Ila doesn’t like about life in Cairo.

“Run! He is here! He is here!” The words reverberated around the trees until they reached a crescendo. “RUN!”

A strikingly beautiful, dark-haired woman sits silently in the darkness, as unmoving as a statue, while the young girl beside her settles down for the night on the sumptuous chaise lounge.

When pigs fly [Take off]

Just like the shoes, I am stubborn with,
I will not throw you out. Or like my white handbag
scratched with nib marks, belly-full of stories
I will keep you pursed, one arm belted over you.

Without love in a marriage, problems cannot be solved .

Mr Young plays scrooge in a cautionary xmas tale. Mr Greaves loses xmas becuase of Mr Young's rashness. Mr Young, meanwhile is sripped to the bear-bones...lietrally.

those stunned late-summer wasps are congregating...

Amongst his list of rules about falling in love, that Frank kept neatly inscribed in his black office notebook, he had never had the need of one that commanded ‘no touching’.

prosepoem edit 2006

In the hopes of making myself happier, I began injecting penicillin for every ache and pain at the age of thirteen.

The aliens were very polite about it.

She thrashed and kicked out, desperately trying to free herself from the creatures' grasp but they were too strong and continued relentlessly to drag her down.

Elsa's lies cause heartbreak and horror for Rob and his family. But time and love have ways of stealing reason...and causing the most unlikely of romances.

Ferry Meadows