On the evening of the 24th February, in a small cafe in Falmouth, while other people were feasting on pancakes a small group of writers, readers and listeners gathered. The order of the day? To spend a few hours with a glass of wine hearing people read their own words out loud. With a fallen […]

Drumming on the wings of eternity, the auburn warrior clambers through urban forests to finally reach the sea. He momentarily waits in the glimmering sunshine, besides palms and rock pools. The Sun chants its radiating heat like thunder, whilst the dormant sea crackles upon the shore; an orchestra of clapping clams, singing shellfish and muted […]

The TV flickers as I drive down into the valley. It always loses reception here – people going about their daily lives on screen jittering and fading. A brief break from the banality that rattles out day and night. I look in my rear view mirror. Too eager, too early. She won’t have found me, […]

Schrodinger’s House Plant ‘You can’t say precisely how the damn thing grew.  It had leaves, it had blooms, it had roots, it just didn’t have any visible structure.  It was simply undetectable to the eye.  Either its constituent parts were too small, or they reflected things in such a way that all light appeared to […]

He awoke, bruised and bloodied.  Lying naked on the ground, a spasm wracked his body.  He felt cold and pain, coursing through his body for the first time.  Disorientated, he tried to stand.  To begin with, he had no idea who he was, or what had happened to him.  Without the familiar weight of his […]