Mind over matter – a flash fiction story
Mind over matter: Believe you can and you can walk through walls, leap through a piano – as long as you don’t lose concentration.
Articulations
Articulations: Examples of my creative writing: aphorisms, poems, short stories, humour (“humour”), (auto)biography, translations and more. Read Articulating myself for more details or scroll down.
The Camelopardophant in the Zoo of Heraldic Beasts
The camelopardophant isn’t the most cheerful of the heraldic beasts in the zoo. Flash Fiction for the Friday Fictioneers.
Atropos and Mnemosyne – a poem about memory loss
His same question, my same answer, again and again. Atropos and Mnemosyne, a poem.
A pride of princesses
A Pride of Princesses. Penny the tomboy gets the boys to join her and dress as princesses. A piece of flash-fiction for the Friday Fictioneers group.
Porphyrophobia – afraid of purple?
Porphyrophobia: a person with an irrational fear of the colour purple. Irrational fears of certain skin colours lie at the root of so much evil. But purple?
Surreptitiously – a seasonal Twitter haiku
“Surreptitiously” is a Twitter haiku about winter and spring, age and youth. The illustration is probably a bit of wish fulfillment.
Hanging on the telephone – flash fiction
An angry woman on the telephone – inspired by Blondie’s “Hanging on the Telephone”. You wouldn’t want to get a call like this.
Insouciance
Insouciance – a poem in which Narcissus prefers to descibe his manner as insouciance. The alternative seems somehow self-centred. Besides – daffodils!
Through head-high grass – flash fiction
A hot, summer’s day and the boy is climbing the hill through head-high grass, but then he awakens something, and it’s not snakes from hibernation.
Arcane Lore – a Prayer to Osiris
Arcane lore – the story of the God-King Osiris, son of the Earth and the Sky, brother of darkness and chaos, dismembered and restored, recounted in a poem