THE GARGOYLE'S DISPLEASURE

I purchased the tilly lamp from the old chandler on the quayside. A black cage shackling a kerosene flame, it lit my way that night as the f...

I was born a corm. A rhizome. A child root in the humus. Slowly I xylemed. Surged, I rose on hyphae beyond the soil. I could feel the sun. S...

Harold strutted round the corridors like he owned the joint. An ex-rock star with one foot in the Styx, Harold demanded adulation. "Get...

" C'mon Cecil. We'll be late!" "Ok my love. I just need to find the big umbrella. It's in the shed." "W...

Kringlefinger stirred the enormous cauldron of Christmas soup with his massive spoon. Even for an elf he was so short and crooked he had to ...

After the place was abandoned in the Nineties, the flame went out at Saltersgate Inn.  It was a bad omen on the moors. Long had it been said...

Palindrome was an unusual citadel. Constant in most factors, it was noticeably unusual in one respect. Every newborn had to have a name that...

It fills you up with gas. The slow processing, the whims of decay. It's testament the pursuance of glorious slop. How can we stand or st...

The death of men has a new Mother. Their souls' opening changing them like birth. When will her hands prize open my own shucked brain, R...

Norman Winter lived a secluded Yorkshire life.  He liked it that way. In fact it was fair to say that he lived a life apart, wholly separate...

Slowly men fell. Cut deep, He sleeps in their fissures. Where is our Hell when Heaven's lost all sense of itself? Gently, woodlice drum ...