by Dave | Jan 3, 2023 | Uncategorized |
Although the sea is pulled by lunar reins, Its servile ebbs conceal the subtle strides Of a fateful force, once nature’s patience wanes, That tests its tether with unruly tides. Where frozen hills are stoked by metal fumes, It brings a rhythmic ruse of...
by Dave | Jan 3, 2023 | Uncategorized |
Above the entrance to the short-stay carpark opposite the departures lounge at Edinburgh airport there’s an illuminated orange billboard, thirty feet high and twenty feet wide. It features an upturned bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label, giving the uneasy sense that...
by Dave | Jan 3, 2023 | Uncategorized |
I open the car boot and pick up the cushion, its green velvet sheen so recently indented by the weight of my father. I run my hand over the material to smooth out the colour, dark to light. It smells of car freshener with just a hint of bodily decay. I’d removed it...
by Dave | Jan 3, 2023 | Uncategorized |
“Who the hell are you and what are you doing in my garden?” I want to say. My English reserve answers instead and I reply to her question about the delightful weather. She’s softly spoken and I judge about my age, early forties. Homely looking. Although...
by Dave | Jan 3, 2023 | Uncategorized |
I shuffled into the dungeon. I couldn’t go any faster because of the shackles. Try as I might, I couldn’t locate anything close enough to balance the restraints. They had prepared everything. On the table in front of me was a peach. I picked it up,...
by Dave | Oct 1, 2022 | Uncategorized |
I fell in love with misery, The darkness at my door. It punched me til I gasped for breath, And then I asked for more. I’d watch it through the window, Waiting for the day, That misery would swallow me, And take it all away. I took a chance on hope. It’d come...
