Listen, Don’t talk, not inside or outside of your your mind. Listen. Let the shouting die down; like screaming children, even combatants have to breathe sometime. Now, aim a reasonable and incontrovertible truth straight at each other’s hearts – Not a bullet, Not an insult, Not a threat for a threat, But an incontrovertible truth coated […]

For those who know me, you know that my family has been walking alongside my dear Dad as he battled lately-diagnosed cancer.  Wednesday 08 February was his last day with us and we miss him immensely.  We’ll be fine – we had a rare chance to say the things many people never get a chance […]

This is easy – like riding a bicycle comes to mind – but it’s more like sitting down in front of a beloved well-tuned piano on a slow autumn afternoon, you’ve got a half-hour to spare while someone is doing something else and you lift the lid, thinking:  “I’ll just mess around with one hand […]

So many things I don’t understand. The four men burst in at the door of a homestead and demand the drug “Sugars”, A bewildered man says that he doesn’t have what they are looking for and they kill him and all of his – one 18-year-old escapes, but they track him down and kill him […]

Love’s different faces  We two go on a silly night adventure in search of a cup of coffee, through the sleeping streets of chill spring Bristol at three in the morning, when only foreign cabmen, cops and late-night revellers are awake. We notice the gingerbread houses and wonder who built them, We peer over a wall to […]

It’s supposed to hurt. Sure, the natural response is to run around trying to find relief, any anodyne to make the pain go away. But someone whose words I trust said that this is special: an intimate time spent bringing comfort when the whole world has shrunk to one small bed with both sides raised. And […]

The little schmo looked up at the burning sky and cried: “I need food! I need water!” Again and again he said it to the relentless sky, until his thin legs folded beneath him. *—*—*—*  High above – above the layer of burning blue and the copper sun’s lidless eye – a young god lay […]

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