Love is kind, is it?

“Love is kind, is it?” Marnie fumed, stalking towards her husband. “Is that how you’ve been treating me? With loving kindness? Or do you save that for her?” She spat.  “Marnie please, listen to me, I can explain,” Mitch pleaded. “Explain? Explain how your todger ended up in someone else’s hands, in someone else's…” She...

Flashback Fiction- This is where my world ended

This is where my world ended. My entire life ended. Right here at the end of this dock. Sure, I might walk, talk and breath but anyone who looks me in the eyes will see the deadness there. The spark of life smothered and put out by grief. I expected that when I finally managed...

The Good Life Part two: Find Yourself

In a world where unhappiness is forbidden by law, a young girl struggles to find a way to cope with her crippling depression and anxiety, fearing she is the only one in the world who feels this way…  Read part one here first! Find Yourself Joy’s elder sister, Merry came over just has they were...

The Good Life Part one: Find Happiness

In a world where unhappiness is forbidden by law, a young girl struggles to find a way to cope with her crippling depression and anxiety, fearing she is the only one in the world who feels this way...  Prologue After the last great war, life in what was once, one of the most powerful countries...

They scream

There is screaming inside of me. It sounds like too many people crushed together in a small space, crammed against each other, pressing against the inside of my soul. Elbowing each other, jostling for space. Screaming until their throats burn, each trying to be heard over the chaos inside but only the darkest thoughts come...

A note to the past

Inspired by another post I saw, I decided to write a letter to my younger self. To a sweet 13 year old, You are hurting right now, hurting real bad, I know this because I am you, future you. Approaching 30 you. You may be thinking, wow 30, so old! Have I got life all...

Premonitions part four: Time for the nightmare to end

read part three here first! Time for the nightmare to end Raymond walked down the stairs to his lab, still a little shaken but steadied by the brandy and the feel of Marge’s arms around him, her whispering in his ear how everything would be okay. He was nervous about his work, excited to see...

Premonitions part three: Reality or Nightmare?

Read part two here first! Reality or nightmare?   “They’re killing him!”. “Shh, you’ll wake him!”. “We haven’t even found the memories we need yet, maybe we should pull the plug?”. “We’ve found a way to accelerate the process, we just need him to hang on a little while longer” __________________________________________________________________________________ I'm an old man,...

Is it wrong to be envious of a suicidal girl?

So I have this friend, well really she’s the wife of a friend (husband/ wife- it all seems far too grown up for me still, we’re in our twenties!) anyway this wife of a friend started having suicidal thoughts last week and I feel for her, I really do. I’ve been there, done that, I...

Land of the Hopeless part three: The Path Home

Land of the hopeless part three, read part two here first The path home The mirror on the right lit up, it started playing where the one of the left had finished up- her overdose last night. Watching it she felt it all over again, the pain, the loneliness, she thought all hope was lost but...