The best thing about cafes is all the peoplewatching you can do. Sitting there I glanced at folk, watching their mannerisms imagining their lives.

A man entered the cafe. A woman caught the door behind him on the way in so that it wouldn’t swing into her.

The man chose a seat. Before the woman could settle into a seat herself, he said “I’ll have one of those muffins and a cappuccino.” pointing a...

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“I’m gonna do it. I have nothing left to live for”

……. dddddddd…….. He’d hung up.

Suzy paused, holding the phone in her hand away from her ear. She could still hear the faint tone emanating from the receiver. She felt numb, she felt numb because she will never know. Never know if he lived, never know if he got the help he needed, never know if she could have hel...

He stepped into a new world of magic and mystery. He still had the looking glass in his hand from when he’d stepped through the looking glass. What a colourful wonderful world of eccentricity. Little fat blueberries as tall as his knee came wobbling over. They really were very blue - such sad faces one was even crying.

He asked them why they were so sad but they carried on past without a secon...

The control room had been evacuated. Jill had heard the evacuation warnings blaring through the sound system at The Global Protection Agency but had thought “Probably just a drill.” She hadn’t investigated further.

She was focused on her research work that had been due the previous day and wanted to submit her findings as she had found much of her work under the scrutiny of the head scientist-...

Shards of glass

Sticking in my throat

Splintering my heart

Wasps not

butterflies in my stomach

Stinging all my insides

Big black hole

Casting a shadow

Creating a void

Pain. Sorrow....

She pulled her shopping trolley over to the side of the aisle and did something she wouldn’t usually do. She rolled her sleeves up her frail bony arms, which in turn revealed one of her tattoos. It had just been so hot and although she had hoped the supermarket would have been cooler than outside, the heat was still quite unbearable.

It wasn’t long til she was accosted by a shopper. “Oh yeah, ...