• Photo prompt kills!

    The little man had sharp blue eyes similar to those of a mynah bird we once had caged in the kitchen at home. Gordon continued, “He’s my most trusted forensic man. He’ll take you through to the morgue…

  • Two poems …

    Two poems …

    I attempted a couple of poetry styles – an ‘echo’ poem and a ‘diamante’ poem …

  • Tommy’s tale

    A stranded train passenger tells a tale to pass the time in the waiting room

  • The City

    The City

    I threw some Rory Story Cubes and the images revealed let me imagine a City …

  • Cento

    From the Latin word for “patchwork,” the cento (or collage poem) is a poetic form made up of lines from poems by other poets. Though poets often borrow lines from other writers and mix them in with their own, a true cento is composed entirely of lines from other sources. Early examples can be found…

  • Oscar

    Oscar

    Here’s a poem abut one of my cats…

  • Oscar, Ella and Ringo

    Oscar, Ella and Ringo

    Our cat lost us, so I wrote about the trauma. i guess it helped me.

  • Calvin and Hobbes

    Calvin and Hobbes

    Recently, after making a donation, my wife brought home a book of comic strips from a charity table at work. It was “The Calvin And Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book” by Bill Watterson, commemorating his own comic strip, which was pretty big in US newspapers in the 80’s and 90’s.

  • Streets of fire

    A picture of a boy and a miner freshly out of the mine inspired me to write this piece of flash fiction…

  • The Elephant of Doom

    This is a piece of hokum, inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s characters in “The Jungle Book”…