As darkness takes colour and shadows become trees, I stand on the veranda and sigh. A cockerel crows, a bird sings as a new day begins. My thoughts turn to my husband. Where is he? What is he doing? Will he be gazing into the beauty of a new dawn or will he be in […]
Prometheus stared bleakly into the night feeling only a sense of dread. He’d long since lost his emotional attachment to anything in this hard world. He’d lost count of how long he’d been chained to the peak of the Caucasus Mountains. Generations, come and gone. Freedom, a distant memory. His days were a living nightmare, […]
A small penny spider bounces close above my wet nose as I watch its elegant dance out of half opened eyes. Sleep heavily guards my full vision and blocks the thin delegate web. Watching the spider dancing in the first light of the day, creates a yearning in my soul to leap out of the […]
“This is the exact shade of blue?” “Yes, m’lady. Cut from the same bolt as Isabella’s dress.” Serrana held out the swatch of velvet. Eleanora studied the plush square. “Her horse clad the same?” Raffael nodded. “Her horse clad the same.” “Will she be wearing jewels?” “A diamond-crested helmet.” Raffael had slipped into the armour […]
As dawn broke on the beach, a new large rock appeared amongst the black whinstone boulders. A sperm whale had swum on a collision course with the coast and lay dead on the sand. Early walkers came out, warmed by fleecy coats and woolly hats; a labrador kept pace with its strolling owner; a trio […]
Freshly cut shadows are bleeding in the sharpened silence. Pulling my leather jacket tighter around myself, I clench my fists, scarred white with the cold and my nails. My shoes leave water prints from the puddles I’m stepping in, and the wetness seeps into my socks, my clothes, pinching my skin, trying to slip into […]
Seagulls soared through the air where the smell of salt and funnel cakes lingered. The scorching sand seared my feet as I stalked the abandoned umbrellas and towels. Crashing waves and low tides were the only noise to be heard for miles. The sun was situated on the water’s horizon. Farther up, the sand was […]
I stand on the hill in the purple predawn gloom, examining the bleak landscape before me. The wind gusts in strong, intermittent bursts, lifting dark waves from my tense shoulders and whipping them across my cold cheeks, where tears run freely. Instead of finding comfort in this rare place of peace, the surrounding desolation only […]
A cold winter breeze whispers against my skin where I wait, under a star-spangled obsidian cloak. Diamonds in the night sky wink and twinkle, as far as the eye can see. The birds sense it first, the coming of morning. In the distance, the flute-like, liquid gold song of the blackbird, mellow and melodious, a […]
The sun paddles over the ground and into the open sky. I watch it gently seep into my drawn curtains and realize that it is time again to move. Now do not take me for a free loving tree hugger, with no offence to free loving tree huggers, but over the past few weeks, I’ve […]
There was a lightening of the sky signalling the end of night, but not of nightmares. Sunrise did little to disturb the grey fingers of mist that unfurled over the now silent battlefield.The snow, once white, held a pink tinge not painted by any dawn. Bodies having bled their life essence to colour their surroundings, […]
My gorgeous four year old daughter Rosie had just started pre-school and I felt so proud of her. This was her third week and she had settled in really well. I had just returned after dropping Rosie off, when the phone rang. Would I come to the school straight away, as Rose had collapsed! The […]
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