Posts filed under “Fiction”
Night Shivers
The middle of the night. It’s always in the middle of the night they come, scratching in the corners of the room. As soon as I turn on the light they scuttle away before I can catch them, only to slither back as soon as my eyes close. In the dark they …
Alice
Sick to my stomach with falling for you, can’t tell if the air is hot or cold around me, it’s been so long, so long since I saw you, my eyes have dried up and my lids fused skin to skin. It’s like water, it’s like earth, it’s a smooth bubble around me protecting me [...]
number[1]
So I did it and it worked. Now it’s me in teenager’s collages, me on your iPod playlist, me doing ironic cover versions at charity gigs. So why do I still feel like someone’s laughing at me, like I’m made of dust, bound for hell. Idiot, idiot, idiot. And the number of the beast is [...]