Her stiletto heels clicked on the pavement as she walked.  Only nineteen, but soon her whole life would change.  She had no idea it was going to happen, but then nobody that it had happened to had known.  It had come as a nasty shock; for her it would be the same. She reached Merrion… Continue reading Losers

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