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The Haunting of Number 14
I came back to our house today for the first time in weeks. Just hours after you left for the last time. As I stepped across the threshold into the carcass of our love I felt the breath leave my chest. For the first time in weeks, instead of boiling rage, I just miss you.…
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Smithereens
Sometimes I want to scream and shout and smash things in a fit of raw, instinctive, and inexplicable destruction.
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The Perfect Stranger
I did it again. I fell in love with a stranger. I first spotted him at noon, outside the mosque. I was sitting on the concrete steps surveying my surroundings, whilst my companions decided which attraction to visit next. He stood, alone, a silhouette against the high sun. Bleach blonde hair tied back in a…