The Young Bride Pink blush of Veil and gown Obscuring, The pallor of Stiff flesh. Church Bells sound for the dead. Not the living. Heart- wrenching Lament. Gaping wails Mingling. In the storm Of static She drifts. Quiet. By Savindri Ferdinando
Creating Did the grains of sand at your feet Interest you my darling? Were not the stars easier to count and Practice artistry on? Ah, yet the strings still tie you to the ground, And the blade they give you Can only graze and inch. Tear them apart! Do you see The twisted paper ropes […]
The difference between half and whole may always seem obvious; half will always be less than whole and that is something I have always been reminded of. Of course anyone’s first impression of something that has been halved is that it is less good than a whole, for instance would you accept only half a […]
Monday, 08.00am. I woke up to a fresh new day. Another day, to get through, but somehow different. I look at my pillow, at the stains where the tears from last night had fallen, almost meaningless now, But sometimes a good cry is exactly what is needed. All that hurt and sadness bottled up flowing […]
When a starred Night, becomes a scarred night. When a body with a soul, become a body with no soul, When the spirit of faith, become a spirit of torture, dissolving into the unknown realm. When a person once alive, become a ghost and a body of decay, the laughter of the pleasured killer, […]
CHAPTER 06 of The Paragon “This isn’t good.” Eleanor muttered, ripping out the pages of her notebook, “this sucks”. “I wish I could write like her,” Eleanor uttered in frustration, pulling at her hair, she eyed the novels written by Pandora which were placed on her bookshelf. Her mind was famished, for she hadn’t been […]
ACTUALLY lousy Chinese – 660 (Lunch time luxury combo) After our “brief” (yeah let’s call it that) hiatus we come to you, only 3 weeks later, with the goods. As with anything in life, there’s good AND bad. This, our lovely children, was one such bad experience but we learn and we grow ..? right […]
I bullied. Trigger warning – bullying, suicide. And the walls closed in on me, it was like as though the proceedings of one day kept playing on loop, a vicious cycle with no end to it as the voices in my head grew louder, I could hear snobby Jessica from school calling me a loser […]
The Rainbow The rainbow sprang from drizzle and beam When George Ives kissed Oscar Wilde, Where colors of pride were born. “It’s an optical illusion” Said the CIS MAN with a lab coat A nerd of knowledge, While the CIS MAN on clouds proclaimed “It’s a meteorological phenomenon” It was a phenomenon, Indeed, Anonymous for […]
The Mystery of the Stolen Parcel Mr. Jones heard his familiar doorbell ring at six o’clock in the morning. He went into the hall and opened the door, only to feel cold steel pushed into his forehead. “Who are you, a-a-and what do y-y-you want?” Mr. Jones stuttered, shaking all over. Then came a blood-curdling […]