…that I’d like to share with you. It begins where dreams usually do, in the bedroom. That morning the sun shone through the blinds, the same blinds I’d left open the night before. Jules was a sound sleeper and anything but an early riser. She slept peacefully through the sunlight. I, on the other hand, […]
Category: …and other things
the assassin’s knife
It was hot – inside and out. The sun was out and Spring had turned into an early Summer. Though the forecast was for a cool change in coming days, the heat only had to last 24 hours for an ill-wind to blow through the corridors of power. In Australia, Canberra is the centre of […]
epiphany
He walked amongst the many and came across the one – the one who made him feel like he hadn’t felt before. The feeling was almost indescribable, it was like he was walking on a cloud. She was…perfect. Her beauty was like that of a blooming camellia in the height of Spring. She looked like […]
Hot air
I read an inspiring article this morning. Written by Margaret Kelly and published in The Weekend Australian, it speaks of the way so many of us use language in this day and age. She invokes the memory of George Orwell to articulate the way he would feel (and think) about the level of intellectual thought […]
a tribute to man’s best friend
26th August was National Dog Day. Below is a tribute to man’s best friend. Note: This is a work of fiction, as are the names and associations mentioned in the story. Tammy Davis was, in every way, a fun-loving nine year-old girl. She went to a local primary school and separated her time between, family, […]
‘Claire’
Initially posted on youngatheart76@blogspot.com.au It has been said that one has an influence on everyone they meet in life, positively or negatively, everlasting or fleeting. Everyone I came across in hospital influenced me one way or another, but none more so than Claire O’Brien. Claire was a registered nurse in Ward 8C, where I would, […]
sensualism 