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...
by Dave | Mar 29, 2024 | Uncategorized |
The husband spots it first. He lifts his book from the coffee table and almost drops it on his toes when he watches her spindly legs crawl and pause where the book once was. A moment of childish shaking crests over his hand as his knuckles twitch at the sight....
by Dave | Mar 29, 2024 | Uncategorized |
The narrow lane appeared greasy under the yellow, hazy streetlights and a steady drizzle of rain as a hunched-up figure picked his way along the side, avoiding the puddles of dirty, opaque water. The pavements on either side were under repair for several weeks,...
