Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive. Late one night, my cat wouldn’t stop scratching and whining at the front door. I kept telling him to leave it, but he insisted I investigate. I opened the door, a man sat on the steps, one […]
Midnight At the Bus Stop | Story
We meet at my place, I cook dinner. Then we eat. We talk, and afterwards we sit and watch a comedy on my laptop. It’s been years since I had a T.V. and the thought of one of those large plasma jobs hanging on the wall puts me off. When that’s done, we sit and […]
The Safest Room in the Club
I’d always wanted to be a thief. The type who didn’t get caught. Well, I met Dave. That was good luck. He taught me the art of robbing and thieving. Robbing took me away from the miserable shithole I was born into, and put me into the “game”. You learn the ropes. The way you play […]
The Thing that Happened to My Snooping Neighbour
Rustling paper, tearing, ripping, followed by the flop of a heavy envelope landing on my desk made me realise that I wasn’t really alone in my little room. I had just woken up. It was deepest winter and my whole body, including my head, was hidden under the Swedish quilt that was big enough to […]
Dark Stories from Between the Cracks of Time — Part II
I heard a very low humming sound coming from inside somebody’s pocket. One of the two men sitting at the table behind me pulled out his phone and clicked a button. The phone stopped ringing. The man standing at the toilet door put his phone away and walked towards the bar. He stopped next to […]
What your Shoes and Socks say about You
When I was an art student, I drove a taxi at night time to earn my money. How to meet people with bad Socks It was a tough job, night time in a big city can be dangerous and a cabby has to keep his ears and eyes open to know what’s up, and who’s playing up […]