Tag: Writing
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Miss McRee’s Permanently Single
Permanently SINGLE DATING AGENCY Confidential memo to all staff Numbers are down, people. All the single people seem to be going somewhere else. We need them on our books. How can we make sure that they remain single if they go to other agencies? We need their funds, people. When numbers are down our funds…
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And they say romance is dead
Old Mal creaked and groaned as he leant forward in his dusty old chair. He was bent completely double with his arm out-stretched as far as he could, but he still couldn’t reach it. He muttered something inaudible. “What’s that you say?” Ornelle, his wife, glanced up and over at him from her dusty chair.…
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All Alone?
Silent and peacefulOr so it seemsHome to billionsEach with their dreamsAlone in the UniverseSpinning foreverWe often look outwardsAnd wonder ‘whatever…?’
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Half-baked time saver
I do not believe it! I’m sat here, covered in flour after being batted back and to like a ball in a five hour round of tennis. Round of tennis? Match? Set? Game? Bah! Anyway, I digress. For years, possibly centuries it seems that long, the local councils around here – and transport corporations (as…
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The land that no one remembers
The gateway to dreamsOf escape…Of faraway places…Of mysticism and intrigue…Magic and enchantment…Civilisation lostFolklore extinctLegends long forgotten…Yet ruins remain.And with those ruins new stories are born.Ancient echoes have new life.Once found, that is: in the land that no one remembers.