Another two minute read on Substack. This is one of the hardest stories I have had to compile to date, because Maggie isn’t a character that should be contained to a two minute read. But the rules are there for a reason, so I’m trying to stick to them. Maggie is a person who could […]
Setting: Lennons hotel Brisbane, Early 2020… The waiter takes my order As a single diner I have chosen a smaller table Beside the only other smaller table With two guys seated a shoulders width over I begin to tune in to their conversation Certainly can’t tune it out They are very loud spoken The different […]
Shoulders straight Backbone unbuckled You would never have known She carried a weight that gave her any trouble It was in her twenty yard stare The hand that sometimes trembled But otherwise she resembled Any one of us
Is the art of make up application simply part of enhancing your self esteem or something more?
Sorry Sorry Yes please! Please Sorry Sorry Thankyou Thankyou so much! Oh sorry Excuse me Sorry Oh thanks Thanks so much Bye A woman ordering a blueberry muffin The server doesn’t hear her Such is the smallness of her voice So she apologises Apologises for her existence Her mistake Like it is a true error […]
Sorry not sorry The big orange (thanks Ray you’re right) He is orange buffoon has bent me sideways and over the moon (the rhyme is so obvious – fetch me another word brain – fetch me another oh don’t bother) I am over the moon over that buffoon (another obvious device – brain you imbecile […]
My Mother taught me to always look for the silver lining or the good in a situation rather than focussing on the bad. It is a powerful technique for instilling hope in the heart. Which is just what it needs to survive turbulent times with courage. I hope this post offers some hope to my […]
It’s holidays – I’m reading more than writing. I read this book in one great big five hour feast which left me so fired up that I had to take a long walk to think, I’m still thinking. I had never heard of Clementine Ford although a quick search around the internet soon had me […]
And the she wolf howls and howls and howls and the female the female feels it too under her skin through her bones the tremors begin A vibration that runs straight and true straight and true and through her bones that are howling this is so unfair! yet on the surface a smile breaks nicely […]
I have writers traffic jam. This is the opposite of writers block. For those that are interested. Writer’s traffic jam occurs when there is too much to say and it all wants to come out at once. So at 5am I went for a run. Heck it is hot already today. Came back – sat […]
