Yesterday, beautiful blue-eyed sky! Today, an autistic sky burns. Putrid. Vile. Threatening. Yesterday, all was perfect. A comforting sun smiled. Sauntering hand in hand, we brimmed with love. All was so right. We were longing for marriage, a cottage and a bright future. Today, the very atmosphere is cracked. Suddenly, the heavens spit fiery rocks. […]

“Did you see him, Yamina? Did you see that ugly, bearded ogre? Not only is he hideous, with his stinking clothes and filthy body, he is also as gullible as an ignorant child!  I only had to smile and tell him the first part of a childhood dream I had to make him believe that […]

“Listen Harald, my friend! You boys go back to Sweden with the loot without me. I’ve met an extremely beautiful Moorish woman. Although we came to rob and kill, she insists that I stay and marry her!  She told me that when she was a little girl, she had a dream in which she married […]

A welcome summer breeze cooled the evening air as we relaxed on the back porch. “Have I ever told you that your eyes are as blue as the Pacific Ocean?” “Many times, my love.” “They beguile me tonight just as they did the night we met.” How often had he spoken those words?  The words […]

A mischievous pair of blue eyes peers around my door, followed by a freckled face and a huge grin. You give a happy shout and leap onto my bed. “Wake up, Dad!” I hug you so tight you gasp. “Why are you crying, Dad?” Because two years ago I found you, alone and terrified, beside […]

Elsa’s bedroom was the ‘room-in-the-roof’. One clear night, shortly after she had gone to bed, she sat bolt upright. The moon had turned blue. She rushed downstairs. ‘Mummy, there’s a big blue eye in the sky! Come and see!’ I followed her upstairs. Sure enough, the moon had turned the colour of a summer sky. […]

My race is perfect. Perfect. Each individual exhibits godlike traits. Our limbs are powerful and so capable of strong feats. Flawless golden skin covers tall straight bodies and taut muscles. Our long golden hair flies true when we run. Walking, sitting, standing, speaking, nay whatever we do, we show absolute perfection. In assembly, thousands of […]

I’d just tucked Jon into his crib and turned to get the twins ready for bed, when the knock came. “Mama,” said Linnie, “Charlie says his Ma’s baby is coming.” I sigh. My eyes meet Linnie’s, the same forget-me-not blue as her father’s. At just twelve, she’d had to take on far too many responsibilities […]

We were caught in the wild blue eye of the storm, sails billowing madly, waves towering over us.“All is lost!” Our frenzied screams were drowned by the furious winds. A man, bearded and barefoot, appeared from below deck.His shoulder-length hair was unruffled, his tunic clean and dry. “Don’t be afraid.” His gentle tones calmed us […]

Sam carefully sat down and set his cane aside.  “For you and me, it was love at first sight,” he remarked. “You were so carefree. I said I’d keep you safe, but it was you who looked out for me.” Sam stared at the warm blue eyes that peered back at him. “If it weren’t […]

I’m eight when I first spot an electric blue eye peering at me through a hole in the garden fence. Nine. I’m sat alone at my school desk when the chair beside me scrapes across the carpet. I look up into familiar blue eyes alight with mischief. We’re thirteen, sitting shoulder to shoulder, getting scolded […]