Explorations, observations, discoveries
The deaf one was irritating. He shouted a lot. That’s understandable, but he was also a braggart, so his shoutings were especially annoying. I’ve got a new phone, you know. Takes pictures. Brilliant quality. I got this case for it off the internet. The clasp is magnetic. At the exhibition, Shouty was so shouty that … Continue reading Drabble: Mutton Jeff
Ryan was the child-minder who got pissed
She was hunched over the sink, head in hands
He thought it would be a fun introduction to the complexities of death
Then someone said U2 “romanticize the shiny side of an old coin”
When a Chinook loiters over Cripplegate, we all wonder…
I wasn’t sure she’d say yes, but I asked anyway. That Saturday we took our weapons and headed outta town. Separate cars. All through that freaky pandemic Summer we kept 2m apart, faces covered with bandanas like they said, and enjoyed the great outdoors of our beautiful state. They said it was a recommended recreational … Continue reading Drabble: US gun sales leap by 94%
Brian finally agreed he was in trouble when he started to believe Romeo, as Mark Knopfler reports, really did proposition Juliet with the words, “You and me, Babe, how about it? Further clues arrived. He’d grown obsessed by what Elton John saw in the Tiny Dancer’s “pirate smile”. And what Billy Joel sang when that … Continue reading Drabble: Three songs, one story
The story was real enough, a gem, but to tell it would be to lie
He was a loner and she guessed Lockdown had been a bad time for them
They see masks as a green light to do exactly as they did before…
Do you imagine yourself as a witness in a crime story?
Brian knew the engines were so clever they practically read your mind
They broke the news to the families by sms, which was heartless
‘When half of his sandwich hit the shale slab she wanted to laugh’
Western Stars in 100 words
A dirty laugh echoed in the “cauldron of death”
She said it was Midsomer-sur-Mer
He scoured the other pages. Why did he nick her precious word book?
Some of the fish got cut off, marooned in the small pond
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