Other Fiction

2. Chapter One: A Journey Begins

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


1. Prologue

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.


 Slight

poem

Thicker In The Blood

Without love in a marriage, problems cannot be solved .

 The rashness of Mr Young

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.

MUTTON DRESSED AS LAMB

Why should she wear drab hues,
Just because she’s older?
The insults she receives,
Drive her to be bolder.


 How to Fall in Love as a Modern Businessman

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’.


Love Divine

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

A plea for help

This is a plea for help.
It may not sound like it, but it is.
I'm not very good at sounding desperate.


The Waterfall Scene

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.


 No fire

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.

My Dream Land

Ferry Meadows

 Dinner Is Always Gone Too Soon

Dinner is always gone too soon
The plate too quickly cleared.
Leaving worn ceramic patterns and a fat man’s lonely fears.
In the darkened hours that lie ahead
Before the next meal comes


 How to get published

The Roberts were just plain greedy. Ugly, feckless and greedy - what a bunch of bloody eejits. It was obvious to anyone with half a brain that they were ‘copycatting’...

Left to die like a fox on the run

not my favorite song.. this is a combination of challenges from two sites, abctales and ukauthors [weekly flash prose / poem challenge: Rain]


 A Change of Mind

One man finds something intriguing; another man discovers something that changes everything.

 Sticky Fingers Pt. 3b. Digression.

Includes a cameo appearance by William Burrough's ghost.

 Consanguinity in the Cats of Castillon

Cats, non-conformity and self-discovery all wrapped up in a tale set in an alternate Midi-Pyrenees.

Going up and up and up

I forgot the sky when I saw the room of an ant.


The 1st thing and the last

alone in a world of inventions