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Grace Under Pressure
Grace under pressure, Cooling palm across my brow, Eyes of an angel, Lay me down She picked up the gun; its cool grey metal fitted perfectly into her hand. As ...
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Switching Off
Beep, Time ticks with new found uncertainty, Once confident in seconds to minutes to hours, In hours to days to weeks, Now nothing steadies it’s passing. Beep, Too late for ...
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Forget Myself
Her soul was confined to a dark prison of black eyeliner, guarded by spikes of mascara. Always the same; she wore loose fitting black jeans and a tight black top, ...
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The Bones of You
She stared down at the dotted line. She glanced to the left to the small, dark door she had come in by. As she looked to her right she could ...
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On A Day Like This
She had wasted her life away on phone psychics and daytime television; anything to pass the time. With still no child to fill her life, she had spent every day ...
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Enough Already
Go away. You are not my shadow; Stop following me around. No, I don't want to talk. I don't want your arm around the back of my chair. I don't ...
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16 Days In The Land Of Broken Dreams...
1. Contained in a sphere of darkness, unrelenting. Fear closing in from all directions. 2. Alone, none to save you. Captive, like a fish in a tank, resigned to the ...
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Disordered
Imagine this...You wake up every morning and experience but thirty seconds of pure happiness which is followed by a crushing, tidal wave of self-loathing and disgust. You drag yourself out ...
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Russian Roulette
The sun shines through the bathroom window, casting four mottled rectangles of light across the floor. With her back against the closed door, Sally Sutherland lines up groups of white ...
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Recovery
Like a glass ball,If heldWith too much,Or too littleAttention,It shatters;Leaving only Ruins.She watches as it falls,TumblingDown,To crack,To fragment,To a hundredThousandMillionSplinters. She scrapes
