A Talk on the Wild Side |
3pm. My mobile rings.
'Clay, where are you?' says Jorge.
'Having a coffee at the gym.'
'I wish you'd been here a few minutes ago.'
'Why?'
'Guess who just came...
Posted by clayton on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:34:00 PST |
Mrs Gibson |
When I was 15 I worked in a hotel for the blind, a hotel run by a formidable Scottish woman by the name of Mrs Gibson.
Ten years before Margaret Thatcher ascended the throne of England, ...
Posted by clayton on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:31:00 PST |
Love Song of a Vampire |
11:30pm.
I'm downstairs. Reading. Half way through Sebastian's autobiography, Dandy in the Underworld. There're so many well crafted lines that I feel like a Victorian lady in an 18" girdle, h...
Posted by clayton on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:05:00 PST |
An Hour Later |
A coffee. A cigarette. An old queen.
Sipping, smoking, staring at the shop opposite, dabbing his eyes with a white hanky. Thinking. Then he rises, slowly, using the table as support; straigh...
Posted by clayton on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:02:00 PST |
June 18th, 1964 |
Leslie's sat outside Costa.
A coffee. A cigarette. Elbow on the table. Gold buttons on his blazer. A white hanky in his breast pocket. Stylish, camp and immaculate. A cross between Dame Maggi...
Posted by clayton on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:20:00 PST |
Hookers, Dealers, Tailors |
It was a full moon and the street was strangely quiet; the lighting, subdued. Not a pimp or a prostitute to be seen. Queens rushing home to lovers. Shopkeepers pulling down shutters. Crack dealers loo...
Posted by clayton on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:58:00 PST |
Ive Been Rumbled! Again... |
Oh dear. I've been rumbled again. More of my characters have found out I've been writing about them.
I thought Myspace was meant to be this huge entity; you post something up and then it's go...
Posted by clayton on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 03:51:00 PST |
Leslies Story |
An empty bench in Soho Square
If you'd have come you'd have found me there
Kirsty's lyrics. I open my little black notebook. Look round. Add a few of my own&
Pigeons preen amongst...
Posted by clayton on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 05:56:00 PST |
A 'New Sue' |
Ok now where was I? Oh yes Sue...
So I'm stood in the shop doorway when a vision in white fleece and leggings approaches. Who could it be? She's smiling at me so she seems to know who I am. Hold on&Oh...
Posted by clayton on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:20:00 PST |
A Happy Ending |
It's late.
I'm sat inside. Usual spot.
A young girl. Could be my sister. Just outside. A small red bag slung over her shoulder, the type they carry at school. Probably from sch...
Posted by clayton on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:23:00 PST |
