Collection: Deadly

 

Lust

Splashing lights Bright colours, The shuffling of bodies; the crunching of music, of conversation; Flickering prospects; the doors flik-flak open and...

Avarice

He opens the chest. It smiles back at him. His own face: muddied, mottled in water. The blurring of features, pinpoint eyes, The flush on hungry...

Sloth

Sinking into certainty, Conformity. High collared grey coat, High minded contempt, Shoes stitched and rounded, polished at the toe. You’re just...

Gluttony

Just one hotdog, that’s all. I know I can stop at one. Half-way charred onions, spicy sauce, melting cheese… The mirror warns me: don’t You , you don...
Cherry

Envy

Jenny Parkhampton walked home every day to her beautiful mansion. I would follow her home sometimes. Her house was everything I could dream of. Built...
Gold cherry

Wrath

The anger drains away, Running cold down a network of veins Replaced by familiar hollowed out guilt, By that voice By the blood on his knuckles,...
Cherry

Pride

Just turn around, just turn around and walk back there. Just say it. Just open your mouth, let it out. Over in a moment. Burnt once, then healed...