Tube Mind

One of a series of short short stories written about London’s sweaty Underground system, this story is on the darker side of the imagination and is especially poignant in these times….what would you have done? Straphanging on the Piccadilly line, near…

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I Read the Guardian this Morning and Wept

Apparently Omar  Mateen visited the Pulse disco several times before he attended with a 9mm semiautomatic pistol and a .233 calibre AR-15 style assault rifle. On the occasions when he visited before, did he dance? Did he have a good…

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Feathers in the Stone

Education has been my mortgage-payer since 1998. Surrounded by the eternal chatter of the developing mind, ensconced in a system which elevates the Blame Game into public policy; within an environment in which Theory Y is the way to fly;…

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The Blond Bumshells!

What is the reason for Trump and Johnson? Why did any concatenation of karmic forces combine in such a devilish way to create two such patently dangerous menaces to society, to peace, to the environment, to sanity? Ok, I confess,…

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On the tube I sat and wrote..

The writer should never stop writing. The writer cannot stop writing. The magic words are “what if…?” The Zoggian There are not many orphans from the Zog wars who made it to planet Earth, but Gerdin was certainly one. At…

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Flash Fiction: In a Phew words…

The suicide note said “sorry for the inconvenience”. He carried his iMac in his back pack. He had wiped everything off the hard drive, except The Novel. He planned to leave it with the note on the platform when he…

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New old up the ladder see the world

This 2016 year This New old year in which I Meet the Government, try By consultation to identify Better ways And Play a bit part in this movie This movie? And do my bit to be Another manifestation of me…

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Hereunder

Under this tree I sit and knit Above my head birds sit and shit Is it too much to wish They’d avoid rotting fish Or whatever makes them squit? Oh give me a gun! Or at least a brolly Are…

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A Bite out of Apple

Evidence of my power and control is I haven’t (yet) thrown my iPhone, this marvel of technology and marketing at the wall or jumped on it with stiletto heels specially bought for this purpose, or punched it with the most…

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…on Pride…

A definition may help here. I do not intend to google a definition, I prefer to define my topic according to my view, so that I know what I am talking about. If I use somebody else’s definition, they are…

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