Short Stories
Fragments of fiction
Overview
Themes
slow motion
As if in slow motion, people roared – they cheered – celebrating with mad delight; glasses raised, eyes ablaze with…
Eternity
He reclined with naturally graceful poise upon the springy sofa and watched memories being made. Surrounding him, circling him as…
Opera Mystique
There was once a man whom no one knew. He lived in a cottage on a quiet, quaint and quintessentially…
Surf
The current flowed beneath her surfboard like electricity surging into a plug-socket. The waves were powerful; so too was the…
Psyche
Her succulent little toes curling in the sand, she stood before him reverently – almost bowed – slender of body…
The Sovad Hotel
Numerous social circles saw it as the last remaining vestige of the old world, like a lost city, a sanctuary…
Klementine (A Portrait)
Quiet desperation filled the room, like the scent of lavender perfume in the bridal suite of a royal chateau. This…
Commute
The wheels of the train revolved beneath them in perpetually accelerating cycles. They roared and rumbled through a vast labyrinth-like…
In Memoria
There were frozen spiderwebs in the frosty morning, touched with dew like a shiny gloss. There was golden sunlight on…
Visions of a Rural Dawn
At dawn the tall trees cast long shadows over the meadow, like silhouette angels or spirits in the early morning…
A Dazzling Daze
I. They were dazed, nay sozzled; smiling, safely within serenity. A warm fuzzy glow absorbed them in its blanket of…
Edenesque
Her eyes blazed a bright sparkling blue, like a shallow sea shore. Her heart was wild and free; her soul…
The Sailor
His hands were coarse, his stubble rugged and manly, his lips hardened from enduring long nights of biting wind in…
Mojave: Desert Solace
Was there once a hymn or poem or painting so achingly poignant, so piercingly beautiful, so breathtakingly, awe-inspiringly divine –…
Joseline (Part II) - A Study in Despair
The silence seemed to devour her, like an invisible force pressing upon her from every conceivable angle, crushing her. The…
Joseline (Part I) – Before the Fall
She had a jolly, tender face, her ruddy red cheeks the hue of warm pinkish-purple blush, matching the shade of…
Ode to a Fantasy
Oh, how I wish I couldn’t see this tragically bleak graveyard of derelict industrial warehouses and factories, once heaving with…
Little Jean
As a young boy in the olden days, his hair was fine as silk and white as snow, bleached by…
Lonesome Limousine Ride
Behind the tinted windows of a slender stretched limousine, he skulks; his scornful stare shielded behind dark horn-rimmed sunglasses and…
Poems
The Surreal Visions of Lazarus
Overview
Themes
Himalayan Pilgrimage
Roving a tranquil alpine gorge,Past ancient relics and sacred artefacts,I saw jagged jutting lumps of glacial ice,And gigantic formations of…
Visions of Psyche
I saw an oracle bathing in ancient moonlight,Her tender naked body,Gracefully cloaked in flowing silk garments – I saw sparks…
Apocalypse
I saw a hellish waterfall of scolding molten lava,Titanic tectonic plates violently tearing apart,Loose rubble tumbling down into the abyss,Earth-shaking…
Cave Dwellers
Ephemeral jangling whispers creeping strangely through their mystical minds,I saw luminous beams of pale starlight twinkling down upon the sand-swept…
Subterranean Void
I saw a malevolent cloud of despair,Hovering above her fiery halo,Like a silent sense of discontent,Tormenting her mysterious mind through…
Ophelia at Dawn
At dawn she awoke,Shivering below eternity as the ancient bells of time resound,Peering through distant memories at the tormenting glow…
The Blood Countess: Elizabeth Bathory
I saw the throbbing neon glow of garish white lights,Illuminating her gaunt feverish face,Repulsively anaemic and pale,Repugnantly vacant and ghostly,Beads…
Carnivorous Feast
I saw heartless fools voraciously devouring the mangled flesh of mercilessly slaughtered lambs,Their malevolent greedy eyes prowling the blood-stained dining…
Lonesome Dawn
To know myself,To look upon my wretched blood-spattered pillow,Weeping for the lost innocence of pure childhood fantasy,The agonising howls of…
Bipolar Prophecy
I saw luminous turquoise lanterns floating through the soft air,Into a vast array of fluffy white clouds above,As peaceful to…
Desert Mirage
My warped mind thrust into a crucible of psychosis and hallucination,I saw a desolate wasteland mired in horror,A billion specks…
Willow Grove
I saw a magical grove of ethereal willow trees and peculiar lotus petals,The rich aroma of ancient maple leaves and…
Metamorphosis
I saw a crazed porcupine,Ramble strangely down the jagged path,Like a torrent of unyielding fury,Through the lamp-lit alleyways of Nirvana,Mercilessly…
The Lighthouse
I saw two tortured tormented souls discarded upon a solemn island,Their weary lungs heaving with cancerous tumours,Seeping malevolent fibrous roots…
Occult Ceremony
Wandering the candlelit tunnels of my mind one lonesome wintry night,I saw the ceremonial execution of a nomadic martyred mystic…
Gothic Nightmare
Plunged into a chasm of horrific visions,A cursed crucible of hell,Flooded with the eternal tears of mortal terror,I saw a…
Magical Forest
I. Brooding alone by the autumnal riverside,Captivated by the pulsating electric midnight wilderness,Intoxicated by the strange radiant desolation of existence,I…
Glass Temple
The spectral glass temple,Lay withering atop the sorrowful plane,Amongst the gnarled knotted roots of dying trees,And tortured stones of a…
Cosmic Cemetery
I saw dark clouds,Long brewing in his sad mind,Like a biblical storm rising from the depths of his haunted psyche,Bringing…
Prose
Journal Extracts
Overview
Themes
Date:
19.01.2021
Location:
England, Chester
A Long Night
It’s just gone midnight and here I sit in the semi-silence of my dead grandmother’s old bedroom, having moved in…
Date:
05.11.2020
Location:
England
Grave Realisations
It is a terribly sad moment in one’s life, when they realise the innocence of their childhood is lost forever.…
Date:
13.10.2020
Location:
England
Light versus Dark
Home again. Just out of rehab. I feel my soul is still tethered to the darkness. I feel it tug…
Date:
25.09.2020
Location:
England
Solemn News
Gran has passed. Sasha, my therapist in rehab, took me upstairs. As we sat down in a private meeting room,…
Date:
21.09.2020
Location:
England
Anorexia Nervosa
Whilst I was on the phone earlier today, in the lounge, a woman with long emaciated limbs and an achingly…
Date:
18.09.2020
Location:
England
Suburban Labyrinth
I felt very raw and vulnerable this morning, woken violently by the shrill cry of grating iron machinery rupturing the…
Date:
10.09.2020
Location:
England
A Beautiful Morning
Fragments of forgotten dreams and memories drift through my mind, like a cloud of revolving gyroscopes, bewitching my consciousness and…
Date:
12.08.2020
Location:
England
A Beautiful Dream
I had a dream, a madness-imbued dream of a utopian fantasy. It was thus: I saw lily pads floating on…
Date:
19.07.2020
Location:
England
Turning Tides
The sheets of ice upon which I solemnly prance – that separate me from the freezing oceans of despair below…
Date:
20.01.2020
Location:
England
The Stuff of Dreams, Not Yet Dreams
Be it the night, be it a dream, be it the days of lonesome wandering or the nightmares of reality,…
Date:
12.01.2020
Location:
England
Ominous Prophecy
On the train back to London, I notice a sinister sinking feeling in my gut, as if my instinctual and…
Date:
10.01.2020
Location:
England
Meditation in Yellow
We are hurtling irrevocably into modernity. To look upon the date written above this journal entry is strange and seemingly…
Date:
15.12.2019
Location:
England
Sunday Morning
Sunday morning in London, families walk past my window dressed up in warm puffy coats and scarves and hats, holding…
Date:
15.07.2019
Location:
England
Nightmares, Hallucinations & Lunacy
The days continue to blur in a wild mass of crashing images, a kaleidoscope of haunted remembrances, a torrential downpour…
Date:
19.01.2021
Location:
England, Chester
An Ugly Bar, A Sinister Dream
At this present moment I feel strange, as if a dark euphoria has descended upon me and dialled my perceptive…
Date:
29.05.2019
Location:
Greece
Daydreaming of Love
It’s evening, the hot afternoon sun has cooled to a warm and sublime sunset, the kind of image you’d see…
Date:
28.05.2019
Location:
Greece
A Gorgeous Island Bay
This morning we decided to stay where we are, on our mystical voyage around the Greek islands by sailboat. It’s…
Date:
12.08.2020
Location:
England
Ladies of the Night
The day is overcast and filled with the undeniable essence of doom, as if it were the setting of a…
Date:
23.05.2019
Location:
Greece
Petrifying Nightmare
Last night strange and twisted dreams cascaded down upon me, like a whirlwind of surreal madness and visceral hallucinatory imagery…
Date:
22.05.2019
Location:
Greece
Psychosis
The morning drifted by gently and relatively uneventfully, until I walked by the sea with my toes curling to feel…
Date:
19.05.2019
Location:
Greece
Peculiar Visions
As we drove down the winding coastal road, I could hear the ghost of innocent Ti Jean in my ear,…
Date:
18.05.2019
Location:
Greece
Dancing on Thin Ice
It’s around two o’clock in the afternoon and I’m sitting in a bar on the high street, in the outside…
Date:
28.05.2019
Location:
Greece
A Dream Within A Dream
Last night I had another dream within a dream. In the first layer of dreaming, I had another dream and…
Date:
16.05.2019
Location:
Greece
A Reverie in Athens
We flew into Athens late last night, drove past the vast pulsating electrical matrix of streetlights, that exude their fuzzy…