It’s a Sunday, and I’m not thirty-two, but eight. My parents are in the back garden. Dad’s manning the barbeque while Mum’s playing with Monty dog and I’m jumping down the stairs three at a time then I’m running back up and sliding down on my belly and even though there are monsters in… Read more

  There’s a moment where we meet, and as the sunlight plays upon our faces, our loins are racing and full of smoke and dirt while the voices of everyone we’ve ever met ring in our sunburnt ears. I’m a good kid, but the part of me that believes in magic just can’t be trusted, and… Read more

  There’s this famous woman nearby. Well, I say famous. She used to be in some reality TV-show concoction that had a big hit then died a death soon after. Now she acts in the soaps and appears from time to time on quiz shows and as a guest panellist on morning phone-ins on local… Read more

  Beneath the bridge down by the supermarket two lovers defy the odds. At a bus stop where other lovers stare in silence awaiting what comes next, a magpie clutches a safety pin within its beak before leaping into the sky. In my arms at a quarter past six, you turn to dust but then around… Read more

  Afternoons spent here and there. Sometimes nude. Other times wrapped in blankets or in each other’s arms walking the streets looking for adventure but finding nothing other than greasy spoons and boarded up bookstores. We used to go down into the cellar of one in particular, remember? Walking around and around I would spend… Read more

  Just a taste. Just a glimpse of what has never been, not in this life, at least. There are footprints that lead from my room to yours. There are patterns that emerge in the clouds that tell me of your movements and just what you desire at any given time. There is a line… Read more

  How many cigarettes do you have left? One for you and two for me, right? On a scale of one to ten, how bad do you feel? Ignoring the mask you wear, what thoughts run through your head as you lie there at night dreaming of a life you’ve never known? Cut the crap… Read more

  When it gets into me, I grind my teeth and stoop over until my nose bleeds. When the blood trickles through my fingers, I grin and bite and chew and those who get too close are reduced to mere ashes. When the fluid is in my belly one version recedes while the other comes racing… Read more

  Touch yourself. Forget yourself. Take a sideways step and watch those faces blur into a mess of half-remembered memories of drunken nights on the town and hungover mornings spent in the arms of a lover who’s now a stranger. Walk the grounds of a hospital where a younger version of yourself is stood outside… Read more

  Between the useless seconds, I peer down her top and glimpse the ocean. Brushing against her, she turns to face me and breathes in my beer breath. She’s not repulsed, in fact, she rather enjoys it. Makes me a man, she says, but I’m not a man. I don’t know what I am, but it’s… Read more