Sophie enjoyed her trip to China. She went all over Beijing even though the traffic was scary. The road was full of cars and they all seemed to travel at full speed even though they had to push each other away. She didn’t know if she had the nerve to drive in this city but […]
Category: Fiction
Stories and poems
New Neighbours
I moved into an old people’s community. It was getting difficult to walk and I had to call the neighbour in to change the light globes. I couldn’t catch public transport and the only way to get around was driving. There were no shops nearby and I couldn’t walk to them anyway. The doctors were […]
Daisy
It was different now. The house was silent. He was gone and there was no more grumbling. She was used to the grumbling. What would she do without him? He made all the decisions. Then she realised. He was gone. She made the decisions. She could do anything she liked. She could get rid of […]
Lost
She wondered what they looked like. There were mostly geometric drawings in the long corridors and the arenas. Squares like gameboards with little markers as if they were playing draughts and someone interrupted them. Landscapes too, rows and rows of stylised trees with low-hanging branches like the ones in the fields and forests around them. […]
Fuss
Wherever I go, I make a fuss. I walk up the ramp slowly, me and my walker, and the attendant from the agency follows me, very close, waiting for me to fall but I don’t fall. He must be very frustrated. Such a fuss, I think. I don’t like making a fuss. We reach the […]
People-watching
People walk along the footpath next to the ocean. Sometimes they do it for exercise; young girls in sleeveless t-shirts or slightly overweight girls walking with their friends to encourage them to do something about the fact that they like food too much, or perhaps the wrong sort of food. I identify with the fat […]
Walking
I wish I could walk again. I dream about it sometimes, I’m walking along and then I realise I’m walking normally, how I used to walk, one foot in front of the other and no shakiness. I sit in my car and I watch people walk. They walk down the street full of confidence, swinging […]
Choosing a Career
Maya went with her friends to the library to study for exams. It was a beautiful sunny day, everything was so green except the parts which were blue and brown and sometimes yellow and everything was shining bright but if she had to spend the day indoors, and she had to study for exams, the […]
Sophie’s Birthday
She ran up the hotel stairs because her mother had said her father would be at the top. It was her birthday so she expected her father would have a surprise. Birthdays were all about surprise, that’s why she looked forward to them. The stairs were covered in carpet so they weren’t slippery and she […]
Little Red Riding Hood: Vegetative Thoughts
There’s a wolf prowling around. He’s big. He’s sniffing the jonquils, nibbling a few leaves. Hey, I thought they weren’t into vegetation. The berries around me are shivering with ecstasy hoping to get eaten whole, slide down a gullet to happiness as part of something bigger. Me, not quite ready for that yet, though it’s […]