Category: Original Fic

I take a look around at my life, such as it is, and this is what I know.  I know that I am forty years old, and yet I have nothing to show for these forty years that I have spent on the planet. I know that I am sick and tired a lot of… Continue reading I Know

I never know when it’s going to hit me, there’s never any warning.  It creeps up on me and then…, there it is, crippling me, tying me up in knots.  I should be used to it by now, after all, it’s been nineteen years, but still it manages to catch me unawares. It manifests itself… Continue reading Addiction

00.05am.  I get up from the sofa and walk to the window.  Everything is silent.  No crunch of tires on gravel, no throaty growl from a powerful engine, just silence. 00.05am My skin itches.  It’s as if something is trying to crawl out of it.  I realize I am chewing on what was once a… Continue reading 00:05am