The soothingly bucolic view was a real-life Constable landscape. Sarah’s pottery studio, her escape from the rat race, was idyllic in summer. Back to the kiln, moulding wet clay with her hands, she usually was absorbed into the sights, sounds...
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The End Begins
"South of the equator Halloween falls in spring"
The wedding invitation, blood-red script on black, didn’t surprise. However, the time and place did pique my curiosity. Aza and Harri’s wedding was precisely timed, six minutes past eleven on Halloween in the Terminus Chapel at Rookwood cemetery.Now Rookwood wasn’t...
You always stalked,The fringes of my dreams.I always pondered,How you imagined me.I devoured your words,A salacious nourishment.Wondered when I wrote,Was I feeding you too?In the dance of our lives,We nodded across the room.I was always curious,The words we might whisper.We...
Email To: Her From: Annie Hey gorgeous.Don’t even pretend to be surprised, you so knew I would email you straight back. Well, not exactly straight back, giggles, my puss distracted me.I just can’t help myself anymore. Not that...
And now there are four. Those progressively eliminated have already departed; cheeks damp with tears.We will dance in pairs, the other two first. Megan and I wait outside; nervous, edgy and deathly silent. Four dancers, two places; we know the...
That ain’t no way to treat a Lady?
"Discovering my girlfriend's unladylike desires"
“A fucking lady? No way; how, why?” I babbled, shocked.“Lady, darling; the word is always capitalised,” Cyn, my girlfriend of four months, clarified, “I’m Lady Cynthia Fortescue-Smythe, second daughter of Edward, the Earl of Battersea."“And you are me telling this,...
Oh Mary, our first night together will forever be etched on my heart. We were then, you and I, two women short-changed, so far, by life’s dance of love.This proud country girl, first night out in the city, found in...
I woke to find you gone
"All that remains of her page is an error code"
To where did you decide to run, my love?What thing made you take flight and leave this place?I would have found a way to stop the shove,That took you away, outside my love, my grace.You can be like a skittish...
Eden. The word doesn’t need adornment, alone it evokes the image of paradise.Except, it doesn’t in my case. Though not hell by any means, my Eden wasn’t the paradise you should find yourself praying for.For you see, my Eden was,...
Notorious Ned Kelly, Australia’s Larrikin Legend
"Two is twice as nice"
Notorious has a B.I.G bad rap.Like what attention seeking whore wouldn’t take infamy if that was the only game in town. Some ancient artist once said everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes.No way, I wanted more than a quarter...