Baystore At the foot of The Hill was a grey expanse of rolling water that stretched east to the horizon. All day the water rumbled at the edge of the road, spitting her angry, white froth against the confines of glistening boulders placed there by government trucks after the last hurricane. When night fell, she rose […]
01.07.2018 7:09
Rising The world had risen while she slept. Birds chatter excitedly, hidden in the dense green of the garden. Cars rush up and down the road behind the shade of the palm trees. Ground doves coo over the distant barking of dogs. A grass cutter whirs and buzzes somewhere beyond the tall grass that lines […]
25.04.2018 6:25
Texaco I sit on the ledge listening to the waves below slap and swirl at the lip of the cliff. A pelican glides low across the water, the tip of its wings lightly brushing the swell. To the west a small white sailboat slowly makes its way to the edge of the world where a […]
12.04.2018 07:13
Pillar You killed me with your words wrapped in love. You cut the grass from beneath my feet, chopped my ankles in one clean stroke. Your voice, relentless, never broke. You took me down in one fell sweep, like an uncanny master of an ancient art. I watched me fall one thousand feet, watched ground […]
18.11.2017 18:34
The Uncertain After – Part 1 He was sitting in a stiff chair, his small body dwarfed by the dining room table. He could not be older than seven, she thought. “Were you afraid?” she asked. He looked up at her, his dark eyes sober. “No.” He rose slightly from his chair, stretching his thin […]
02.11.2017 14:04
While she was sleeping The Wind now ceased her plaintive howling and whispered her goodbyes to the lifeless form at her feet. Silence stepped in her wake, idly unfolding his leaden cape. The Sun raised his head from behind the grey wall of the horizon and looked towards the Island. She lay dazed, a tattered […]
07.05.2017 16:42
In the blue She lay on her belly, softly suspended in the turquoise waters. She saw her brown toes floating far beneath her, the paleness of her palms hanging lifeless before her. She felt the warmth of the sun hitting the back of her head as she gazed through the mask at the dancing rays […]
19.07.2007 11:33
On the bus to somewhere to pay a fine for a careless man Yesterday it rained and rained. A rain to quench the thirst of one thousand waiting open mouths. A rain to burst into ecstatic rhythms on dirty pavements and rusty rooftops. And then a rain that softly licks the stinging sores that she […]