This is where I’ll post any random updates that I like. They may be about writing – or actual small pieces that I feel I want to create and share.
Enjoy!
It had started in the boardroom and spread to the shopfloor.
Safe in her sanctuary, Eliza wound the strand of hair wound her finger once again. And looked up.
“You promised that wouldn’t happen again.”
“I didn’t know the others were feeling like that.” James replied, taking a seat.
“Don’t even think of sitting down. You have things to sort out.”
He shot out of his seat. Continue reading
The vacant dance floor is echoing to the music. I’m watching carefully, but there’s no sign of her. Steady on, there’s plenty of time.
I have a clear and casual view to the doors, without looking desperate. Cool is the place to be, for us all.
My nose wrinkles at the heavy, sweet smell of the floor wax and the reflections of the disco lights show that someone has been busy during the afternoon.
I sip my coke more often than I need to. I’m tempted to bravely suck the lemon as I would at home, but perhaps not, I decide. I see another small group of excited faces laughing as they come in.
Still no sign of her.
“Should be some talent in tonight, you reckon?” Billy says to me, interrupting my thoughts. “Some little crackers.”
“Yea. Sure. Of course,” I’m irritated at his trivia, for I’m on a right old mission. Tonight’s the night for Gemma.
“…Calling out around the world
Are you ready for a brand new beat…” Continue reading
August brought the rain, unexpectedly after the searing heat of July. A heat that was as exhausting for its intensity as it was for its consistency.
The locals had something else to bitch about now. Far from the cooling relief, they complained about it raining ‘again’, fickle as they always were.
As she walked home, Simone had more to think about than the ups and downs of the weather, for August brought her crisis fully into focus. This was the month she’d had ringed in her calendar all year.
The month when it would finally come to an end. Continue reading
“How are you feeling now?” she said, as she sat on the bed beside him, soothing his head with a cool flannel.
“Not very well, Mummy.” He shifted around, uncomfortable in his sweaty pyjamas.
“What can I get you for your dinner?” she knew she had to get some food inside him. ‘Feed a cold, starve a fever.’ She remembered what her mother had told her.
“I don’t want anything. I’m NOT hungry.” Was ALL he said.
“You’ll have to have something. Build you up.” she got up and straightened her pinafore.
“That soup.” He shouted after her, as she disappeared into the kitchen.
He would eat something, for the first time in days. So she allowed herself a smile as she reached for the tin from the cupboard.
She knew that he would eat this, his favourite. The chip pan was already bubbling away and they would be ready soon.
“Would you like a few chips in it as well?” She didn’t wait for his affirmation, for she knew he would. She smiled again. Continue reading
He was white as he lay there. As white as he had ever been in his life, which was now as ebbed away as a life could be.
The small crowd that had formed was starting to drift away. Nothing more to be seen here.
For nothing was going to happen now, as the paramedics began to wrap up their gear and load the body onto the collapsible gurney one of them had fetched from the ambulance. Continue reading
The song came clearly on the breeze. That soft breeze you get in the tropics that brushes away the heat and humidity just enough.
You can hear it now, pitifully meandering up and down the scale as though it’s lost something and struggles to find it.
And you are taken away, to another time, in another place, where you heard it before. You were much younger then and you knew then, you would come to this.
A lonely beach, across the seas, so in the love that the song describes. Undulating and intense. Lost, yet found.
And you cry again.
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