Come away, O human child To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand. WB Yeats I heard running…a door open…a door slam; slam so hard my small wooden home shook. I waited…silence…an eerie deathly silence. I walked towards […]
Micro Fiction
‘Good advice is like a tight glove; it fits some circumstances and it does not fit others.’ ‘Israel? Do you have a death wish?’ I tried explaining. ‘My story must be authentic…have feeling, be believable. It’s a writer’s golden rule.’ She didn’t get it. She offered advice, wanted or unwanted. ‘My advice, stay at […]
‘Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.’ They shared a park bench. He smiled…said hello…silence. He searched his pockets…found some coins, slid up the bench. ‘Is this enough for a smile?’ Three gold coins lay in his palm. She looked up, her lips pulled tight ready to spew forth a litany of […]
‘When I toss pebbles in a puddle, she throws boulders in the ocean!’ I say I visited Rome. She says, ‘I met with the Pope.’ I say…we stayed in Florence…near Rialto Bridge. She says, I stayed in a villa with a chef, housekeeper, views across the Tuscan hills. I ask, ‘What do you know […]
Outside a kookaburra laughed heartily. Today was her day. She recalled his proposal. Sweet and beautiful…they were meant for each other. Her dress hung on the door…lace and satin…her dream dress. She spent the morning perfecting her makeup. Finished, she felt that special glow of all brides. Time to dress…something new…la perla underwear, something blue…a […]
Flowers lay scattered across the lawn. The tulips face up, mouths open, like fish out of water. Inside the church, silence reined. The bridegroom reached for the maid of honour. Facing the congregation, he said, ‘True love can never be found where it does not truly exist, nor can it be hidden where it truly […]
We were the animals in the zoo, locked in, forbidden to roam free. This was their home…once a thriving mining community now a 21st century Ghost town. From the tour bus we watched a mother and her children traverse the lush green park. She stopped…others joined her. They turned and looked our way. Like a […]
I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains Of ragged mountain ranges Of droughts and flooding rains I love her far horizons I love her jewel-sea Her beauty and her terror – The wide brown land for me Dorothea MacKellar Its vastness is underestimated by many tourists, often to their detriment. Unlike much […]
In the 21st Century is poverty still the parent of revolution and crime? She put the chalk down and turned to the class. ‘This will be the subject of next Monday’s assignment. I’d like you to try writing your opening sentence now. Then some of you can read them.’ A flurry of writing ensued. ‘Peter?’ […]
She died knowing her family was safe. Hidden deep within the forest foliage her body lay undetected, decomposing in its own time. Her offspring woke to the world, hungry. Protected from predators, they waited for their transformation to begin. Soon each found a place to grow, to change to develop into the beauty their mother […]