by Dave | Jul 1, 2022 | Uncategorized |
You turn off the car engine and sit for a few moments. You let your body sink into the quiet, taste a rare second of calm. The kids woke you nearly five hours ago. It’s not even mid-morning. “Make the most of every minute”, they say. “Time will go...
by Dave | Jul 1, 2022 | Uncategorized |
All eyes turn to the full moon and I think of the months I would live without you. At first, counting, one, two, the belly of the autumn leaf facing the sky, before it touches the cold ground. The shedding of the seasons as close to me as the dry skin on my thumb,...
by Dave | Jul 1, 2022 | Uncategorized |
When I stepped outside on Wednesday morning, feeling the weight of the ongoing week on my shoulders, the last thing I expected was a proposal of marriage. I got one though. Albert had come and stepped right in front of me effectively blocking the path and demanding my...
by Dave | Jul 1, 2022 | Short Fiction, Uncategorized |
The great silence didn’t happen all at once, so there is no definitive way to pinpoint when it occurred. It did, however, begin in my youth. It began when a linguist was interned in the prison of a hostile foreign power. Using only will, she discovered a way to...
by Dave | Mar 31, 2022 | Uncategorized |
When we were frozen, inert polished stone, water rushed, algae bloomed. The whole place breathed. We were pulled, like tides, pebbles sucked clean. Scattered impulses unravelled, assembled, rearranged, became something sensible. Eventually,...
