The outlet pipe for the washing machine hangs over its side almost as if it’s had enough. Hanging there exhausted and tired, but it delivers another surge of suds with poise, the machine cycles through another rinse, spinning at the top of its range, whizzing and humming like a CD player spinning a CD, extracting [...]

Down at the bakery, they’re always asking me as they piece together a slice of ham and a sliver of cucumber “sul, pepper, may’naise” no, that’s not a spelling mistake but the way the say it down at the Mihn Trahn They’re exceedingly eager to deliver their question looking up with those puppy dog eyes, [...]

They used to pre-cook them in the shop I grew up in, so it was quicker to serve them. They sat in a lardy pile on a silvered sandwhich of steel, waiting for the scoops that would scrape dull along the bottom edge, then the chips were plunged to their death in boiling oil, the [...]

He tasted determination as he moved from one end of the deck to the other – funnily it tasted quite similar to saliva and the inside of a bloody bitten lip. He was determined to get to the other end of the deck to adjust the sheet and pull down the foresail, the automatic motor [...]

The aroma of the cup cakes was overwhelming as he stood at the counter scrabbling for loose change in his gaping pocket. The scent smacked him with a phenomenal upper cut. His head reeled back as his sense of smell exploded. These dainty little daffodils of taste were seated in a simple elegant basket, a [...]

The liner looms over the wharf with thick viney ropes anchoring it to the deck. They look so thick they could almost pull those round metal plugs up at whim. Wooden planks planted in the nineteen sixties in varying degrees of disrepair show filtered shots of dashing water- menacing green and cold beneath. The cruising [...]