Celine sits on the station platform, waiting for her train to York. She fiddles with her hair and taps an irregular rhythm with her feet. The announcements board says the train is on time but it cannot come soon enough for Celine. Her Boyfriend promised her a day out in York, a city she has […]
Creative Writing
#FridayFlash – We Could Be Heroes
“Ere, Simon, how do you know you can die?” “What?” “I said, how do you know you’ll die? Or that you even can?” “What are you on about now?” “I was just thinking. You could have superpowers or something, so how do you know you even can die unless you try it?” “Don’t be stupid, […]
#FridayFlash – Broken Bracelet
In the days following The End, a lot of people learned the value of what they’d lost. Law, order, social niceties, even electricity – all gone. Those disenfranchised by the old system turned feral, and formed the Riot Boys. The police, overrun and overworked, just gave up. It got worse. Even death offered no eternal […]
#FridayFlash – The Dreamcatcher
Theophilius Hopgood sat at his desk, the quill in his hand poised above a parchment strip. He peered through his glasses at the small glass bottle on the shelf of the desk. Tiny blue particles drifted to and fro, disturbing the pale green mist inside the vial. Hopgood dipped the quill into the ink and […]
#FridayFlash – Polaroids
Angela hated having her photo taken. Will dated her for sixteen months, and didn’t capture a single image. He’d tried taken them when she slept, and even then she’d turn at the last moment, leaving only a blurred shadow on the camera. Even her online profile photo was a caricature she’d drawn herself on rainy […]
#FridayFlash – The Supplicant
The shrine to Beseda lay deep in the bowels of the Underground City. It could only be reached by a twisting staircase that cut its way through layers of black and grey rock, a staircase frequently blocked by the sheer number of supplicants trying to enter or leave the shrine. Its lack of natural light […]
