Did you notice?

The whites of my teeth show happiness I think. Everyone's too vacent to notice the big sink hole. Sinking down a deep hole maybe it's my life goal. Happiness is my biggest mystery And I wonder, was it really ever meant for me? See, I never understood how anybody could be so delirious, mysterious is …

The Words – gnawing love (poem)

  We are running Padded feet on broken ground Running into the ground Breaking barriers down  We are clawing Gnawing Playful the sound Fuelled by love Forever bound

The Story – keeper of secrets

I remember her holding me in the car park of the gypsy caravan site, strength on her face but heartbreak in her eyes as she told me how much she loved me. I couldn’t hold them back any longer and they began cascading down my cheeks, I watched my mum grow smaller and smaller in …

The Story – separate tracks

We never did get it right did we? yet you are still around, looking back at the jumbled history that is us, it's hard to put the pieces together, harder than all the rest. Maybe we were too complicated to comprehend? maybe there is just too much to remember? my mind presenting memories like a …

The Story – cheating on me

His phone left my hand and landed on the bed next to his sleeping head, my mind gave me no time to care what the weather was doing and my eyes wouldn’t let me focus on the clothes I was throwing on my back, my hand let go of the door handle, it slammed louder …

The Words – blue light

Bathed in blue light We lay At the beginning of days filled with hope Just you and me Nothing in-between Young and willing to lose it all Bathed in blue light You have my heart Come what may Today, tomorrow and forever I have you –  Selflessly

The Story – lindor chocolate

You were wearing your faded red bed top and white boxers. None of the furniture was ours, the sofa was a tiny, hard, modern thing covered in brown suede fabric that we could hardly fit on together and the kitchen was the length of a micro oven, hotel fridge and one sink combined! Not that …

The Words – the sun

I have forgotten how to walk It’s been a year filled with years A thousand lifetimes And your face The sun And constant walking on air I have forgotten the ground I left my mind there Grounded My heart is the king to which I obey And you are the god to which I pray

The Story – boy from the grey

So a few months of back and forth later and I was ready, I had made the decision to leave college and make my escape from a life I truly hated, he had been driving down at weekends to stay with me but I needed more, every time he left it got harder and harder …

The Book – visual mess

Ok so I’ve gotten to a bit of a stale state of mind, I’ve really needed something a little more creative to sink my teeth into to kick-start my motivation so, I’m going to strip back the visuals a little from what I was originally going to do, unify the imagery throughout the book to …