Red tape to me seems to be rather black and white/cut and dried/salt and pepper. Marching rows of letters and numbers on a form, boxes like parking spaces waiting to be filled by the vehicle of my prose. Fabulous. Even then when it’s all filled, filed and sent, some other query may weave its way [...]

How do you stop a werewolf – is that one the silver bullet? Stake through the heart- no that’s vampires. Buffy’s been on my mind lately – up to episode 7 of series one, the genesis- all those little details that make sense later on. How does one become a werewolf- are you born or [...]

Quick halting movements, like those flies that suddenly change direction in mid air. A foot slides along polished boards, a stamp , a head thrown back- is there a rose between her teeth. Foreplay – it’s foreplay on the floor, the dance around the subject, the real hot blooded business to come later, but now [...]

Guilt has not hung from my heart like 20 kilogram ice blocks since I made my decision, some may think it see saws in my conscience going back and forth – a hand saw cutting a groove through the comfort of my daily existence but, No, is the answer. There’s a lot of vacillation, sifting [...]

Rock star, pop star, ‘holiday’, ‘material girl’ ,mother of Jesus – loaded like a six gun, slung down the side of her hip waiting to blow you off – our Madonna – is it a bastardisation, a cleverly thought out strategy to deploy the elements of religiousity to evoke Sympathy – Madonna, an icon, a [...]

A is for apple, a billion children’s books say it is so, they’re a funny thing- they have a bipolar personality hard on the outside- solid, but a bite takes you to a core of dissolving goodness. Munch and crunch – teeth trampoline over the offcut grinding it down to pulp for the tummy. Another [...]

He’d been carrying it around in a compartment in the back of his brain for a while. Lugging it over all sorts of terrain, it had become heavy , almost a burden, but he knew if he could hold on for the perfect opportunity it would deliver the assassins blow. Its shiny casing sat in [...]