#95: Splinter

It’s obvious, isn’t it? A girl with a splinter in her palm. She holds out for dad to see and he pulls it out like Skittles from a packet. She winches and cries It’s a droplet of blood, but it feels like a lake She shouldn’t climb trees She’s been told that before but this […]

#94: Thoughts from my mind yelled into the void

I do not need a drama folding up in front of me I can do that on my own Somewhere along the way it stops I can’t get it right be both be both be both be whoever you want but just make good decisions and make them quickly so you can move on and […]

#93: Scenes from an Emotional Life (Part 4)

IRIS: are you going to take your clothes? FREDDY: they need to dry IRIS: could you take them out the machine and hang them up? FREDDY: I thought you were going to do it IRIS: only if you weren’t here FREDDY: you said you’d do it while I was at work IRIS: but you’re not […]

#92: Scenes from an Emotional Life (Part 3)

I was in school – nearly I was in a pen caged like a chicken running headless no fear I painted my life as I saw it I woke up in grass which was a line of course and looked to the sky which was a line at the top of the page small clouds […]

#91: Scenes from an Emotional Life (Part 2)

we dated for many years we dated for many times in different places I didn’t love him I tried to be his equal I was always matching I reached out and felt his heart and the moment I did the light went out we moved in then we left behind a chest of drawers an […]

#90: Scenes from an Emotional Life (Part 1)

I have become trapped in I used to be a beautiful woman And then I began to decay I feel sorry for you looking at me what do you see? when you look at me? an old woman a fortified rarified type we’re all getting old, aren’t we? and I have grown up very fast […]

#89: The Sweeper of Dreams

I spin off into a distant land Of trees and dragons Mystery trains He watches over me

#88: Iris Abernethy as Police Officer

[An incident room.] [IRIS is furiously scribbling at her desk. She is becoming paper. KAREN enters with a two postbags full of mail.] KAREN: Most post for you, Iris. IRIS: Put it next to the other ones KAREN: Do you need a hand? IRIS: No KAREN: We’re about to meet. See you in the war […]

#87: Everest

[SAM stands in muddy jeans, with a spade. JANE, GREY and DARIN stand around, waiting to be introduced.] -I’m halfway through digging a hole in the back garden. Our dog, Wexler, is lying, splayed out on the lawn covered by tarpaulin from the back of the shed. It’s raining quite heavily and I’m not wearing […]

#86: History of the World (Part 2)

CONTINUED but still hide it away. And also destroy some of it – in literally tear apart and burn Ptolemy and Aristotle and Apollonius the bibical universe I don’t really want to go there. I’m not really sure what that means for the history of the world Genesis says that God created the universe How […]

#85: History of the World (Part 1)

So the universe cosmology There is a physical system and there may be a grand great somewhat questionable designer The history of the universe begins as soon as we they it as soon as someone begins to think about its history and begin to note it down So Ancient Egypt, it starts with the Greeks. […]

#84: Chat Shows

I used to sit on the toilet and pretend I was on a television chat show. I used to discuss my latest film my latest novel my recent Oscar victory. I used to pretend I was famous and well-respected. Not just a minor celebrity out of a reality show but a talented person respected all […]

#83: Essay Deadline

Facebook Spacebook My Space Your Face Oliver McPherson wrote on your wall how’s the essay coming? and you say it’s not coming at all Joe Allison is stringing words together to make sentences. And then paragraphs and then hopefully pages Discuss and explain the anthropogenic impacts of your mother’s face on a bone china tea […]

#82: The Wilderness

The plan was to wander off into the forest and explore the wilderness, while looking at each other’s bodies, holding each other’s hands. It was a cool day and we looked to the north in search of the horizon, our bags heavy on our backs, weighing on our already broken shoulders, water heavy on our […]

#81: Mayan Apocalypse

That year we were all doing Further Maths and English and Drama and Politics and Maths and Art and Physics they’d turned on the supercollider there were floods and hurricanes there was people in different parts of the world blowing each other up asking for peace but practising war while the rest of the world […]

#80: The Imminent Collapse of the Construction Industry

I suppose suppose that it feels feels different to what what has gone gone before feet feet almost blue hair there’s no stopping you can see as far as you can it forms shapes and sounds shifts into into shift after shift after breath breathing into existence crying slumped on the back of a chair […]

#79: Cryptic Messages Available on Tap

I listen to this song cause it makes me feel sad It reminds me of all them good times we had together It’s an access point for rewinding “You’re the shit and I’m knee deep in it”

#78.5: Invincible

She knows she can make it. This is what she has to do it to find way through. She jumps through time like sheets of rain, killing person after person. She notices the way people stare, but they don’t come close. They know to stay back and keep their heads down. They want her to […]

#78: POLIS

-You speak of this man? Rick? -He was a police officer -And when did you speak to him? -I didn’t talk to him. I shot him. ENDS

#77: Sandwiches

[FERNE and WARK are in the kitchen] -Let’s see… -What you got? -We have peanut butter, cucumber, jam, smoked ham, Wensleydale with cranberries… -Do you have bread anywhere -Do we have bread?! Of course we do. -I meant in the cupboard. Just checking – it’s the essential component -Not necessarily. There are lots of different […]