The passengers were all squashed in, holding their baggish condiments on loose arms or  propping them up on tired knees. They all seemed to wear a different paste on their foreheads. complexions that tasted of the day’s events. The snappily dressed finance sector employee had had a good day on the markets so he was [...]

The sound of the party was spilling into the street, the fireworks , arcing up over the city like agitated cat tails were long gone, the smell of  the their exploding mortars hanging in the memories of onlookers, but back in the ‘burbs’ the party was still continuing. One A.M. now. It was an ‘invite [...]

They were all living under his Brussell sprout regime, the one where they were forced to eat Brussel sprouts day after day – even though they hated the wretching taste of the things, had done since childhood. If they didn’t they knew they would be put in some slimey prison somewhere with a bunch of [...]

A black hole in your personal universe, a void, an abyss that doesn’t seem to end, a long way down, falling, falling, numb and cold. Lost in a winter wilderness of unbelief, sour milk, bad apples all rolled into one. Walking through an earthquake zone, the world shattered , jagged edges of Nine Eleven still [...]

Personal relationships, the tasks we perform, the jobs we do, the responsibilities we take on, the mortar of day to day living. Our commitments keep the whole machine running, imagine half the world decided they’re not going to participate – if some segment of society such as garbage collectors go on strike, then cracks start [...]

IN our little town the high school had the proportions of an aircraft carrier, huge. It was facelessly plying its way through a sea of knowledge with us little plankton being made ready to be fed to the giant whale of society, but can’t say it really got you ready for it. That was more [...]

Some people are just full of it aren’t they? Brown waffle shoots out of their mouth as if it were the arse of a cow, words plip and plop all over the place until a nicely rounded pile of stuff has filled the air. The thing is how long do you stand it? Do they [...]

Every second Friday night, the highlight of our  lives was a band called ‘Deep Freeze’. I’m pretty sure they did bluesy stuff, but, the hit of the night for me was always Bill Hailey’s, rock around the clock. For whatever reason that one got the bones jumpin’ and jivin’, rockin’ and rollin’. I don’t even [...]

Five years old I go down to the sweet shop on the corner- the one that’s now a security store. I walk in and the aroma of boiled lollies, of ‘teeth’ those fake pink gums, of sherbet bombs is pure heaven to this child’s eager taste buds. I wander round making mental selections, putting them [...]

Hands dancing and jumping over black and white slots, translating black and white dots into a sonic fusions, a complexity of timbres that combine to make music: pleasing to the ear. Tap on a key and the piano pushes back experience tells you how much, how far. Metronomic black and white beat of the time [...]