Tag: Life Stories
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Pond Street Nora
Not The Vagrant Everybody knew her, though nobody did, not really. Singing songs inside herself, she pushed her trolleyful of life before her everywhere, up and down and round about Pond Street station, where she was always found, though she was completely lost at the end. Her trolley, filled with bursting bags of bits and…
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Teenage Daydreams
Face like a moonscape, pale, pitted, pocked, and pretty ugly, the teenager sees with their own mind’s eye. They see what they think others see. The petty mirror lies on the wall, telling them tales of what they are not. They are not perfect, the mirror shows, eyes too small, a crooked nose, ears that…
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The Super Hero
Protected by the impenetrable shield of self-absorption the dark-haired young boy strode around the garden dispensing justice with his thumb-cocked finger-gun. He paused to mutter warnings to his foes and comfort to his friends before dashing ten yards or so to the other end of the universe to repeat the process. Hands on hips, the…
Writing Me Up 