33. FOR THE RECORD |
It was the perfect present. A sky blue mono box record player, minutes later Id unwrapped a copy of the Beatles Help, my first ever long player. It barely mattered that my elder sister received a...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:10:00 GMT |
32. PREPARING FOR A FALL |
There I was, afraid to fall but lacking the strength to pull myself back to safety, so I hung in a strange suspended limbo waiting for the inevitable. The day had begun by clearing a patch off a heavi...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:38:00 GMT |
29. THE SOUND OF SILENCE |
Oblivious to either us or their environment, the young couple asigned the next bed had been locked in a passionate, dangerously escalating amorous, embrace for several minutes. Watching in disbelief, ...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:15:00 GMT |
28. MORNINGTOWN (MANY MILES AWAY) |
It's a regret that only very seldom surfaces. Yet sometimes, in the small hours, when it's to late to put the cork back in the bottle, my mind drifts away from the radio and enters that strange, sad, ...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:53:00 GMT |
27. THE MAN IN THE WATER TOWER |
The man had blown his entire life savings buying athe dilapidated remains of a red brickVictorian water tower. The anachronistic construction had been left to riun in surrounding woodland and fallen ...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:32:00 GMT |
26. BEHIND DEAD EYES |
It wasn't me that followed Dave through the pub window in the small hours, or tip toed heart pumping frightened across the floor towards the bar. It wasn't me that stretched a woollen pullover out as ...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:14:00 GMT |
25. YESTERDAY'S TOMORROW |
Shockingly Colin killed someone in a robbery that went horribly wrong and is serving out a life sentence. I still see big Keith. He's unemployed and sleeping rough on a mates floor. Me, I'm keeping...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:47:00 GMT |
24. WORK FOR LIFE |
John Iliffe was a Co-op man. I swear if you cut open his heart he'd have the company logo written all the way through it. Everyday he'd religiously clock in, don his grey warehouse jacket and unde...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:18:00 GMT |
23. RUNNING DOWN THE HILL |
Reading about the careless priest leaving the video tape on the train seat made me chuckle. Apparently he liked nothing better than to slip on some nipple clamps, stockings and suspenders, lie across...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:24:00 GMT |
22. FALLING DOWN A DEAD END STREET |
You're shit. Some would say it with such undisguised vitriol it threatened violence. Mercifully mostly it was done with just a look; outside reminders of what I was feeling every minute of...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:29:00 GMT |
