Who’s that Girl? Pt3

"Chris has run out of suspects and decides one final look at "The List" is worth his while."

I sat in my office looking at my smartphone. “The wonders of technology!” I smiled to myself. It was simple really and even though I was frustrated that my keen intellect hadn’t been able to work out who ‘Buttercup’ was,...

A Word to the Wise

"When Christy's best friend wants to pop her cherry she enlists her older brother, however..."

“What the fuck?” I finally said after the coughing fit.I brushed a couple of drops of coke from my T-shirt that had spilled when I’d heard my younger sister’s request.A grin spread over Christy’s face, “You heard me! Well?”“Jane wants...

A Failure to Communicate

"Sometimes words don't matter"

I could feel the hot baking sun reflecting off the white washed walls as I sat beneath the shade outside the little cantina. My mirrored sunglasses, scratched and tarnished lay on the table, angled so I could see the door...

The Journey

"that very first time when all is new and yet to be discovered"

Ask yourself what is it about flesh?New flesh, different flesh, unexplored fleshDifferent body but God is in the detailThe imperfections that make it perfectHold your gaze, look closer, closer yetExamine it minutely, gaze at the detailWatch the goose flesh rise...

Confused

"Katie thought it was going to be a quiet night on the ward."

Sometimes the job was too easy!Of course tonight’s shift was on the private ward with all mod-cons. A nurse barely had to leave the nursing station and yet she could monitor how all the patients in the private rooms were...

Quiet Please

"What goes on or comes off between the stacks!"

or Pushing the Librarian’s Buttons It was just the local library. Every Thursday evening I would stop in there when it was open till 8 pm. I wasn’t a member; I didn’t need to be as long as I didn’t want to...

Love Kills

"the slide from love to hate"

 They say it’s blind,Maybe, maybe not.But it blinds! In the name of the father,The mother,One’s country.God! We protect that, which we love,From suffering, from harm, from hate,Against all. Beyond reason, beyond sanity,Beyond our own life.And in defiant defence is where we fail. We are...