Mission

I'm trying to write a short piece of flash fiction everyday from whatever pops into my head at the time. It'll mainly be rambling unsubtle crap but hey, at least its something right?

Wednesday, 27 October 2021

Shoe

What is done is done, as the old man says. The sea swallowed the world and spat it back out again. We build land from the wreckage and call it a clean world. We built again, rebuilt the cities and the towns, farming flourished in the rich soil, and so time moved onward. Now, the cities grow larger, the people older and the days are timed to a nanosecond.

I lost you at the that moment, I think. Your eyes drifted from rapt attention to a glassy stare in a way that I couldn’t quite pin down. Oh well worth a go eh? I ramble on and on though, seemingly unable to stop words dribbling out onto the street around us. People are staring now, and so I take your hand and stride purposefully away.

We end up outside the shoe shop, looking, somewhat suspiciously, in at the size eights neatly lined up in the display. I breathe a quiet little sigh; escaped again.

Songs whilst writing

·         The Murder/Victim Monologues – The Seven Mile Journey

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