Mind-bending stories.
I resist being the me she knows until the movie ends. By the time I got to Brown’s, I just bloody knew everyone would be staring at me. They stare because I’m strange-looking, I’ve been mocked before. Minging. It stays with me. The room stops to think for a moment about how not to behave. Janise is my rock, she is the third-best bodybuilder in the region. I’m rich, beyond my retirement. I bring her to the Sunday book club. It might not seem like the steamiest of dates but Read More …
The shadows lie. By the evening, I barely see the ends of my brown locks as I begin tying them. I stop. Is there something behind me? Just my mind… But I mention it to my mum, the shadows moving in the sadly brief talk before she rushes off for salsa night. My texts blew up. My Instagram is spooking me a bit but I stayed for the memes. I stare directly through my mobile. I’m blinded. I’m running from it. The bad mood. My behaviour shifts thinking about my Read More …
The evening of the the boy’s 8th birthday is met with both embarrassment and joy. It meant that he was ready to go out by himself for the first time without his mom, Mildred.‘There be monsters among men.’ She warned the boy, ‘just be my brave boy and rush back. My three shillings…’ she hands over the money ‘but…buy everything that your eyes desire, my birthday boy!’The boy was totally enamoured. Mildred isn’t always this rewarding but the boy sailed the momentary bliss. The embrassment was as strong. The bullies Read More …
‘Must I say more!? Brrr’ snarls the black bear, ‘then, just with brevity. Every bagful of my eats is my blesssing from the ether’. Merle stands three meters from the bear. The strange musk that’s she sprayed is both for battle & seducing men. Is this my battle? Merle’s mind is stops running when the massive black bear begins to lick it’s own lips. By now, the desire to run shrank for some reason. She bravely emerges murmerings. ‘I’m rite. The more I’m rite the better it is for every Read More …
Zemji, the beloved mistress of both magic and beauty made the evening headlines. Before her most memorable traits, she had been shamed by the burden of bad luck for 18 years! Zemji became sick with many ailments but the sustained anaemia, the blood disease, made her resent being born the most. She ended up being brought up in the shadows. The magic she musters today is more then dark. By the Mantek Master of Manipulation, for 13 months, Zemji became renowned. Jemz The Beast was the moniker she established, having Read More …