Week Three. One ink drawing by Laura Morgans, one piece of writing by Tom Spooner, every day in October. Week One and Week Two Day 15 Black Eyes, Burnt Thumbs With black eyes, burnt thumbs and rouge on her cheeks of an...
Week Two. One ink drawing by Laura Morgans, one piece of writing by Tom Spooner, every day in October. Day 8 Voiceless There was nothing left of his voice. It had deserted him along with most of the other things that he...
One ink drawing by Laura Morgans, one piece of writing by Tom Spooner, every day in October. Day One New Adventures You can find adventure everywhere – you only need to be open to it. When you’re next walking...
A Novella – In Parts The Premise: First Bus, a south west bus company, issue digital bus tickets through their mobile app. I buy a weekly ticket to get to work and back. In order to prevent fraud and other naughtiness...
If I ever go on an adventure, I would choose a bear as my companion. Nobody really knows when they will need to go on an adventure. It’s impossible to predict. One minute you are doing your homework, the next you are thrashing...
The Bully The bully was called Boyle. Straight out of a Roald Dahl book, this hardened endomorph with his pocked-face and ratty moustache made my first few months in secondary school hell. I would dread going to school, fear the...
I waste too much time watching Netflix, but ultimately I’m okay with that. What I take umbrage with is the number of hours I waste looking for something worth watching on Netflix. I have even invented a term for it –...
There is crying tonight. You can sense it. Somewhere beneath the rain, the sound of the rain and the water flowing over the blocked drains. It’s the saddest kind of crying – the type not meant for anyone. There is an old man...
The parody news outlet the Daily Mash ran a story recently that reported on a group of Texan tourists that had visited Swindon and proclaimed it ‘magical like the world of Harry Potter.’ One of the tourists summarised their...
He had heard it from the butcher’s boy who had heard it from the rag and bone man. The rag and bone man had been trying to convince the butcher’s boy to buy the wheels from a perambulator he had picked up in Blissford from a...