by Dave | Jun 29, 2024 | Uncategorized |
They have set the bonfire alight. The smoke-whorled dark smells of cloves and ginger, treacle and brown ale. At the foot of the pyre spuds and chestnuts roast. Grannies spread a red-checked cloth over the grass. A small boy’s mouth is ringed with parkin crumbs, while...
by Dave | Jun 29, 2024 | Uncategorized |
Whilst the congregation has been mumbling along to hymns they recall from school assembly, weddings, or funerals, I’ve been mouthing the lyrics to ‘I Will Survive’… grateful for the blue mask hiding my lips. The vicar presses the button to draw the curtains and...
by Dave | Jun 29, 2024 | Uncategorized |
I shouldn’t have got into his car. I didn’t know him. We’d exchanged a few messages on a dating app for the over 50’s. When I saw his picture, I thought he had an honest face, with a nice smile, normal, not flashy. I hoped he would be patient and not want too much...
by Dave | Mar 29, 2024 | Uncategorized |
By chance I find myself here, Moonlight illuminating cigarette butts in pavement puddles. Night sheltering the shadows of long-harboured regrets, I’m sitting in a bus shelter where once we kissed when we were young. I’m sitting in a bus shelter where buses no longer...
by Dave | Mar 29, 2024 | Uncategorized |
People think I’m mad, I know they do. But I’m not, honest, I swear on every pair of shoes I own. My cat is trying to kill me. It started when he was a kitten. I thought it’d calm down when I had him neutered but it changed him from ubiquitously murderous to a...
