Santa Maria #55worder
He smelt of sour rum and stale tobacco. Fingers yellowed, hardened from years of taking what was not his, and enjoying plunder. His family had come from Spain generations previously, […]
Category Archives: 55 word stories
Oops
‘They’ll disown me’ , taking a long drag of the cigarette, nervously picking paper from red lipstick. ‘Things like this shouldn’t happen to me.” Elvira choked, exhaling jaggedly blue carcinogenic […]
Artist?
I told him I loved him once, a lifetime ago. Would he remember? He sat engrossed at the Dickensian desk, pen and jotter in hand. I think he may have […]
55 #55worder
Even her long legs, plumped up diva red lips and flash of thigh didn’t work on policewomen apparently. “Step out of the car madam” As soon as that breathalyzer was […]
Sharps
Lights hummed, arbitrary 2am artificial neons. He created a work of art, beautiful neat stitches on porcelaine skin. A simple scar from larynx to pelvis. So young, so beautiful, what […]
On giving a ghost directions NaPoWriMo #17
It wasn’t about the grave where I usually lay my flowers that I spotted the waif . The bright sunlight gave her blonde curls that opalescent glow. Knowing at once […]
Reflective apathy NaPoWriMo #10
The voices in her head kept telling her to jump in. Reflected in the water the subtle features of her usually soft face were all ‘wrong’. There was something ‘off’. […]
Carcinogen Queen
Blue eyed Titania tokes on the death of a stub opaque skin simmers with inhaled cyanide adding to the titration of the blood in her veins, on she […]
The artist
I told him I loved him once, a very long time ago. He just sat on that derelict old stage with a pen and a jotter pad, but I […]
Purple rain
She instantly regretted the decision she’d made in following Chuck out into the corn field. In a psychedelic haze it was an impossibility to distinguish him from the scarecrow, and […]
Musings and Smatterings 