Bits and Pieces

I hurry out of the carpark and down the passageway to the office. My heart is thumping in my chest. I'm probably late, but it isn't that that is causing my anxiety. Today is going to be an important day. Pushing open the door, I force myself to smile at my colleagues. They respond to my greeting;... Sign in to see full entry.

I can feel my stomach clenching as his footsteps come closer. It's always hard to relinquish that inner calm that is only present in his absence. I grit my teeth as the door swings open. His bustling gate reminds me of a victorian spinster; an unfulfilled school teacher, perhaps. Lips pursed... Sign in to see full entry.

So what is a girl to do? What can she do when she loves him and he loves her? It all sounds so simple, so straightforward; but life never is. Love makes the world go round, or so they say. But what if love is not enough; what if you crave new places, new people, new experiences, new knowledge, new... Sign in to see full entry.

I want to write. I have always wanted to write. Ever since I can remember, I have walked life's paths; observing; gathering; waiting. My mind is never at rest: a thousand words that paint a thousand images spin chaotically within. The day will come, I know it, that the charybdis of my thoughts will... Sign in to see full entry.

As autumn shrugs off its vibrant cloak, you begin to fade. Breathlessly I watch you, searching your face for answer to questions I dare not ask. Can you sense my fear? Does it creep, soundless and unwelcome into the darkest corners of your awareness? Eventually we have no other choice: we must brave... Sign in to see full entry.

'NO!' Sam lay there in the dark, his heart thumping. A sheen of perspiration covered his chest as it rose and fell in jerky, uneven gasps. Glancing over, he tried to force himself to relax. Annie hadn't woken, thank goodness. She so desperately needed her sleep. It was that same dream. It pulled him... Sign in to see full entry.

Stretching her arms langorously towards the sky, she lay for a minute, letting the sun work its magic on her tired bones. What a week it had been: dragging herself laboriously from task to task, she had prayed for it to end. She sighed. What could she expect; the years were passing; slowly, steadily... Sign in to see full entry.

I met her on the stairs; she saw me and stopped; or was it I who saw her first? Anyway, it doesn't really matter. To the intense surprise of us both, there we found ourselves. Face to face. Nowhere to hide. Impossible to turn our heads, whistling as we continued out separate ways, safe in the... Sign in to see full entry.