#81 Post Hoc / Catalyst
She made bad choices. He was just one of many. True he led to many more bad choices, but who is to say that she would not have found this path alone. Truth be told she was already following a … Continue reading →
She made bad choices. He was just one of many. True he led to many more bad choices, but who is to say that she would not have found this path alone. Truth be told she was already following a … Continue reading →
This Orwellian dystopia in which we find ourselves. Where reality television, payday loans, celebrity magazines and the revelation of children’s parentage on live daytime TV is de rigueur. None of us asked for it did we? But every time you … Continue reading →
Caroline opened her eyes and automatically began to walk forward. After four steps she stopped, her rational faculties kicking in. “Where the hell am I?” she thought. “What the hell is going on?” Before her lay a landscape like nothing … Continue reading →
“OK, has everybody got this?” The bunch of reprobates in front of me look at me like I just asked if I could take their mother on a date to the local porno theatre. “I do appreciate that this is … Continue reading →
Yeah, I remember the first time I met Cassie. How could ya forget a thing like that? She rolled into town on a big hog of a motorbike. Kinda thing a mean, older, hairier fella would be ridin’. But there … Continue reading →
It was a magical time. We would meet in the early afternoon in the Parisian cafés and we would eat and drink and talk the day away. When the evenings came we would separate and go to our studios to … Continue reading →
You know how sometimes a person can be captured by an idea? That happened to our mate Jimmy. One day, someone told him that a diamond could be formed by subjecting coal to sufficient pressure. Jimmy was captivated by this … Continue reading →
I gave up smoking twenty-five years ago, when I was twenty-eight. I read somewhere that if you smoked, as long as you quit before you’re thirty then if you don’t already have cancer, you have the chance of returning to … Continue reading →
The first opened his mouth and made a sound that could never have come from a human throat. “For fuck sake man we use our human names and voices here” the second admonished. The first looked sulky and irritated. “Why … Continue reading →
People don’t often pay to have good people killed. It’s true. I’ve dealt with some truly abhorrent individuals in my time. People that have made even my thick skin crawl. But even these, the lowest of the low, are not … Continue reading →