Certificate 18

Adults only
Cherry

Darren Makes a Stand

My entry from Heat 1 of the Prose Pentathlon - A story of young love, teenage pregnancy and an angry Dad. Inspiration came from the opening lines of Billie Holiday's autobiography

The Man of Steel

ACT 1 SCENE 1 DEEP SPACE Pan over stars. Silence. A space station comes into view. SPACE STATION INT.

Hanging man.

I saw him hanging upside down, rope bound tightly around his ankles and tied to the thickest part of a tree branch.

Gollum Meets James Bond

“Moonraker is an integral Bond film,” I lie. “This is like the best one.” I do not mention that I could just pause the shittiest Bond film ever.

PURE LOVE

Heat 3 Entry

warning signs

got this spreading, tingling, numbing, pulsating, stabbing, throbbing, pain that won’t take a vacation, that won’t give itself a rest, that won’t lighten up &

death of a christian science English teacher

i remember well the name of my 11th grade English teacher--- Ms. Tominson, who had been rumored to have given some of her students fellatio, during the time when she wasn’t lecturing on

for the reaper need not hesitate at the bathroom door

twas’ the King himself who left Heartbreak Hotel, to die face down in a pile of his own vomit for the reaper need not hesitate at the bathroom door
Cherry

Miracle of the Birds

The beginning of a lifetime of disbelief.

The Saddest of Lines

This is the saddest of lines This is the saddest of lines. I saw you, sad and lonely. I saw you. Standing there in front of me. Could you see me. I am I am courage I am vulnerable