You creep up on me like a shadow Slouching sideways, color as dark as a starless night; You are my worst nightmare come to life A creature in thought Fleshed out with every choice I [...]
Oct 242011
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Mar 222011
Hi, my name is Frank and I’m gay. I know it sounds terribly weird introducing myself this way but I have come to the realization that the more I say it, the better my chances [...]
Feb 122011
When girls my age were outside baking mud pies in the sand and playing ‘husband and wife’ with the boys next door, I was in my room, huddling under the blanket with a Mills & [...]
Feb 102011
Hadiza was recovering from her crying bout with shuddering sighs when a voice boomed in her ear.
‘Get out of the bus!’
She turned to look behind her so fast that her head spun. What was she thinking? She thought to herself.
She was in the back seat for heaven’s sake. She turned to look front when she heard the same voice again.
‘The bus…get out of the bus!’
Jan 272011
Our eyes meet across the room
Lock and probe,
Probe and take;
You probe,
I give.
I probe,
you give.
Language… silence;
Dec 092010
I feel as though you have let me down in such a huge way that I can never come back to you again. It took me a while to trust you and even a longer [...]
Oct 172010
I believe that underneath every surface of good lies a shimmering of potential for evil that shows up as hitches in an otherwise beautiful relationship So what made me kill Ibe? It was nothing really [...]
Sep 302010
‘You killed your own baby, you liar! Even as he said the words to her, he knew that he had made a terrible mistake. The look on her face had him flinching on the inside [...]
Sep 152010
Angel wings form beneath me,
Spreading rapidly, spreading wide,
On either side;
I feel faint; I feel I can fly,
With these wings that sprout out of my body:
Aug 292010
I say that I am beautiful, You say that I am not; You tell me what I am, I’d rather tell you what I am not. Without many words you make me feel dorky, flicking [...]
Aug 072010
Come lunch time and I was still struggling to compile staff performance reports when he walked into my office without knocking. ‘Lunch? He asked, his hands stuffed into the pockets of his single buttoned pant [...]
Jul 312010
I have always wondered what it would be like to have blood on my hands. I don’t have to wonder anymore; now I know. There is so much blood on my hands that when I [...]
Jul 162010
I DON’T I was only eight years old when I told my mother I didn’t want to get married. Her reaction is quite hard to forget considering the fact that I still have a scar [...]
Jul 152010
You’re not the girl I used to know We scraped our knees in the rocky sand And grinned toothlessly at each other over Stinging disinfectant and bloodied cotton balls Now you sit across me a [...]
Jun 232010
People tend to scare Cara more than animals. This has always been the case. So it isn’t really a surprise that she has seven cats in her tiny self contained apartment or that she would [...]
Jun 122010
I’d been smoking pot and having wild sex for the past ten years without an iota of remorse and it was all fine by me until I ran smack into T-boy. Now, he wasn’t what [...]
Jun 112010
I take a trip down memory lane Every now and then to keep me sane; The world’s a-hurtling and the people a-fleeting And I cannot smile for them today, I cannot say words I never [...]
Jun 092010
It was so cliché that she found herself almost sighing in exasperation even as it happened. Their eyes met across the room and she was overcome with the sensation that she had been cast into [...]
Jun 032010
‘I’m leaving you.’ Tony stared at his wife as she stood in front of him with her favourite travelling bag by her side. It was tattered in places that didn’t count which was why whenever [...]
May 202010
My bed is lonely tonight, And I am tired, tired of this great fight. My body is cold to touch And my lips are frozen in one spot; You would have me moan aloud with [...]
May 172010
‘It is all a ritual’, Martha thinks to herself as she shuffles from foot to foot on the slow line that is headed towards the priest at the altar. She almost sighs out loud until [...]