The silence is broken by the sound of rippling water as the smooth surface of the lake is crushed. The duck lowers its head, looking around with small beady eyes.

The sun closes it’s eye as darkness descends into silence.

The duck quacks. The water ripples. The moon steers clear and the sun opens its eye.

The duck is nowhere to be seen.

The clouds thunder, the lake is shattered by a thousand g...

“Just as humans hunt us, we hunt them back. We’re just nicer about it. So, our targets. Abusers, murderers, rapists. And also the members of the opposing sports teams of course. Now, if that’s clear, I really don’t want to have to actually train you guys, so congratulations, you’ve passed your examinations, welcome to the world of hunters.” The tall, pale ghost grins and starts handing out badges,...

The lives are saved, love shared,

But still the mothers weep soft

What a tricky thing - trust

Is this even a haiku? I forgot the syllable’s so I just guessed… 🫣...

Most of these are what you would expect. Boring I love you’s, I’m scared, I can see the light! Some are a little more exciting, the fuck’s, gonna kill you, shit! But then there’s this one. Just a little “oops”.

I wonder what they did? What happened? What was the oops?

Next to it I see, “been nice knowing you. I guess.”

I wonder who they spoke to?

But then I’m really caught. I see a stone, ther...

The belts turn with a rumbling as the strawberries move swiftly on from the field, a team of twenty robots making swift work of the picking.

But why?

Because the children don’t want to pick their own anymore. They grow them in seconds on their screens.

Because parents don’t want to drive to the country anymore.

Because farmers couldn’t afford to live anymore and were replaced by the new moguls...

The other day I screamed about my problems to the world. I stood on a platform and yelled at ten thousand people. I had three others expressing their pain through guitars and drums.

I yelled about drugs, screamed about sex and wailed about family. People cheered and clapped and whistled.

I’m an empty shell, venting my void into thousands of souls. They call it music.

I am dead to the world.

Be...

I brush my hair every morning. Brush my teeth. Brush the floor. Brush the cat hairs off my clothes. Brush the make up on my face.

Why?

I went through a phase when I was a child. I refused to take showers. My mama said, keep this up and you’ll be like a weed. My papa added, a weed in a field of wildflowers.

I don’t take drugs, I don’t eat junk food, I don’t smoke, I don’t drink, I don’t get in f...

[3 years ago]

We laugh, me and my sister racing to see who can get in first. It’s always been a race.

Everyone in town says we’re the best barista’s. And everyone knows it’s always a race between us. Who can get to the coffee first?

We laugh and lunge forward. There’s a crash and coffee beans spill all over the floor. We’re laughing and covered in coffee and old Mrs Marraway is standing outside...

“I tried for so long to just love you! But I couldn’t… I couldn’t bring myself to love you, all there is is hate.” My voice diminishes from a yell to passive.

The whole world seems to turn silent.

She turns to me. There’s that look in her eyes. Something that you see behind the drunkenness, a vile hate, an anger.

“Say that again.” She challenges:

“I hate you. It’s that simple.”

I step back and...

Those cold eyes pierce into me, blue like death, devoid of light, cruel.

“You can love me now.” Comes the bland voice. Like school walls painted grey, like a history book with tiny font and only little indents for new paragraphs, like sitting in silence for hours, that is the boredom his voice makes me feel.

As a child, I used to love my mama’s stories. When the day comes, she’d say, your heart ...