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Monday, 26 June 2023

'There's Always Time For One More' by Laura Cooney

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You need to understand that there are endings, and then there are endings. So, we reach the final curtain, sure, but can you hear any singin...

'The Encore' by Chris Albin

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I’m a masochist. I could be anywhere in time and space, yet I come back here to this moment. I know it by heart now. There’s the Kid at the ...

'Bard' by Suzanna Lundale

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The scene opens on a river scene. Plentiful swans are placidly swimming. The camera pans to a bridge – not a modern bridge, but a Tudor-era ...

'Situation Vacant – Still' by Rachel Burrows

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She lies in the dark, reliving the whole sorry interview, trying to block out when she had s… shit – she had said,  ‘A seag..’ Oh Lord, so ‘...

'Time to Call It A Night' by Tilly Greenland

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Well, that’s it, that’s all I’ve got brain for.  My thoughts are becoming fuzzy and spell check is having to work very hard as I mis-click t...

'The Nick of Time' by Suzanna Lundale

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“Hi, are you a friend of Annika’s? I’m her brother, Nick.” “Oh, I– Yes, she’s a colleague, but I only just arrived this term. Pleasure to me...

'The Manuscript' by Cath Humphris

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Imagine his hand, his bony fingers gripping the quill lightly, at the sloping desk in the stone room, where comfort is of secondary importan...

'They Said Not To Do It' by Sumitra Singam

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  But I’m doing it anyway and now there’s pee all over my hands and maybe since I have to wait five hundred years to see if it’s two lines o...
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'At the Arrivals Gate' by Suzanna Lundale

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“You will love it here!” That’s what he’ll cry, when he welcomes her finally. He will wrap his arms around those shoulders again and painsta...

'It will be blindingly obvious' by Jeremy Boyce

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 It will be blindingly obvious to everyone because there will be an incredible flash, brighter than the dawn of creation or a nuclear bomb. ...