“Go to Reg Hunt”, a voice seemed to boom from below the clouds. The golf clubs were being hefted into the boot, they snaggled against each other with metallic cries for freedom. The boot clumped shut with a low frequency boom and I was left staring at the spot of exposed red undercoat on the [...]

Once the pages had finished rustling and he had landed at the crossword section, a chessboard of missing letters confronted him. There was a row of hieroglyphic clues for the Cryptic crossword, childish clues for the ‘quick’ cross word and the a string of questions for today’s challenge. They were lined up like soldiers in [...]

Sitting in class fidgeting, feet kicking under the desk into the panelled kickboard that drapes from the chemical trough that runs like the Panama canal all the way down the left row of desks, too many experiments have found their way in there, too many concoctions of chemicals that shouldn’t have been concocted. There’s a [...]

Sometimes it reminds me of a Chinese character drawn in a wash of pen and ink – squarish with a line through the middle. It’s a bit of a puzzle that needs to be solved, especially as my weight seems to increase – I puzzle over why I have to clamp the belt in so [...]

They come rolling off the production line at “androids are us’ shining chrome mettalloy hulks. Eyes looking down at you with a menacing crow stare. Hunched over and life less before they are wheeled to the testing room. Data ports are connected for configuration and streams of ‘matrix’ data flow ghostly across a screen – [...]