The gulls down the chimney sounded discordant brass, the foxes ripped cardboard with a wettened yell, the crack of dawn drummed
Movies
We argued about words.
-Wear blue pants.
-Under my black trousers.
-Sidewalk.
-Pavement.
It was like a scene from a movie.
(film)
Myth
Jay sighed as he turned his phone off forever. Getting recognition or fame for writing competition stories in 140 characters? It was a myth.
Laser
The pilot swore as the kids shone laser pointers at his plane. The kids couldn’t hear him but smiled as they pressed the trigger.
Alarm
On day one at the zoo, James fell asleep during training. Now his dreams are full of what he’ll do in the event of a fire llama.
Mirrors
He shouted. She reflected back his anger. He wondered, incongruously, if anger was wave-form or particle. Waves overcame them.
The doctor called
The doctor called. He was old time like that. He confirmed what I had found out for myself and meant it when he said goodbye.
Home working
Looks in cup. No tea. Again. Wide- and wild-eyed looks all round. No tea thief in sight. Catches sight of clock. Same again. Clutches chest.
A sidelong look at the musings of a scribe
Evan sighed. All he was trying to do was make a little money, enough to live and sometimes laugh. But it was difficult being a journalist now. Readers were fighting back. Ever more bizarre punishments were being devised. Writers who took a ‘sidelong look’ were stood sideways on to the nearest wall. And shot with rubber-tipped arrows. Scribes who mused? A quirky view? Retribution was swift, decisive and, if you weren’t one of the people being published, highly entertaining. The punishment for ‘off-the-wall’ was, literally, that.
‘Punished’. Not ‘published’. Punished’. Even Evan’s spell checker was taking the rise now. Then a light went on. A quick 500 words on the difficulties of being a journalist in the online developed world, a wry comment on the similarities between publish and punish, the world and the word…. Then he realised that the light that had gone on was his shed door opening to let in the men with the rope and the feathers.
The anniversary games
The championship medals clinked rhythmically on the bedpost. Result.
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