by Dave | Sep 28, 2025 | Uncategorized |
One wakes with the sun, Walks where the wind is kind, worn to the shape of stillness. She does not speak of being alone, but the dog listens, and that is enough. The other lives in London now — rush-hour in her veins, We watch her blur in the city that hums. Always... by Dave | Sep 28, 2025 | Uncategorized |
Andriy, last week I dreamed that you were lost and couldn’t find your way home but last night you found me. You found me. You had made your way through the shadowlands. You looked slightly older than when I watched you walk away without looking round, your knapsack on... by Dave | Sep 28, 2025 | Uncategorized |
The only thing Nolan remembered was the smell of rain on hot cement and a red darkness from the blood in his eyes. And the taste, like rusty pennies. It was the saddest thing really. His mother, the white trash princess of La Grange, Texas. She wasn’t born with... by Dave | Jun 28, 2025 | Uncategorized |
In the gloom of the morning sun With the rising mist on lichen walls When birds are mute within their nests And spiders lounge in gossamer halls And tucked within my sheets of warmth Smiling in some lazy trance I doze, I wake and doze again Floundering on a... by Dave | Jun 28, 2025 | Uncategorized |
Dear John, I don’t know how you will take this, but I’ve weighed everything up and made a decision, one you will not necessarily like. I think back to early in our relationship, when I was desperate to show you off to my family and friends at my cousin’s wedding. But... by Dave | Jun 28, 2025 | Uncategorized |
Claire’s mother, Clemence, had never left the snow behind. It floodlit her beaming smile and sparkled in her skin, which was paler-smoother-younger than any of the other mothers’. And that was about right, considering the fairy-tale childhood she’d spent in her... 
