Oh! And OH! Never had I felt such an uncontrolled rush of indulgence! I gazed over the sea of bald patches, comb-overs and creeping hairlines and my heart thumped a hidden warmth! It was as if each one had been varnished with a coat of Ronseal High Gloss lacquer. I could imagine licking each one [...]
”Pat.” ”Frank.” ”Well.” ”Well.” ”Hows she cuttin?” ”You know how it is. Thanks be to God for the little bit a business. And yourself, hows the farm?” ”Ah the same ya know, can’t complain. Keeps body and soul together.” ”Aye.” ”Aye.” ”What can I do ya for?” ”Well now, ya wouldn’t have something to help [...]
Tommy thought that if he could only get his parents to divorce, then maybe everything would be ok. Pete Hoffman’s parents had split, his dad roaring off in their beat up old station wagon. Now in place of one gruff business dad, with a dirt collard shirt and a loud voice, Pete had a string [...]
Kafka cross the shore did run, With spirit unconquered ‘nieth the sun, And joyous as the battle beckoned, A postal slaughter to be reckoned. Sheathed in pin-striped battle sheets He takes his mighty tool of feats, The shining unshatterable Bic, His servant loyal and quick. Long had he laboured ‘neith the shameful yoke, The postals [...]
’It’s been a controversial move, but ultimately I think the right one. We looked at the success of shows like Girls gone Wild, Family Business, and Girls of Playboy Mansion, and thought, you know, why not?’ Adult film sets are often bleak places, populated by coked out former state beauty queens, with stretch marks and [...]
Harry spit. He had an ulcer. I looked away, disgusted. Above us the ladder stretched out of sight, hooked at intervals into the crooked granite face. The ladder was really just two steel cables, and between them, every yard or so, a knotted plank, nailed into the rock. Getting Jessie up there would be murder. [...]
You look so young, who could have thought you would get this far! 50 today! From your cursed birth, clawing free of the cancerous womb, bloodied and wild, screaming blue murder. Purple faced, the blood vessels burst, like a vile old man, but young and tender with it. You never had much hair did you? [...]
Ms Kettle stood listening at the foot of the stairs. The building was a converted Georgian mansion. Its top floor housed an office and its first and second floors had been bisected into sought after apartments. As Ms Kettle waited, it gradually assumed a kind of silence. Old buildings are never completely quiet. Wood floors [...]
“GO ON!! ILL FUCKING HAVE YEA! ILL FUCKING DECK YEAH” “Will some one please call the police”, Helen turned to the crowd in the pub, by which time had all backed away in stunned silence. “Barry has finally lost it.” Steven, an old mate of mine, was caressing the wound on the back of his [...]
BigMac moaned, his stick was too short. He couldn’t reach the wet mat of infected flesh that burned in the small of his back. He released the mop and it stayed where it was, wedged between his smooth hide and the flattened mattress. He moaned again, a deep sonorous low, like a ships foghorn emerging [...]