Good Thing

I did a lot of bad things to a lot of people, but I only met two people I hated. Lester and my dad. And at different times I promised myself I’d sort both of them out. I’d already dealt with my dad, but Lester was difficult. Whatever Lester did to me, he was allowed to do. And anything I did would land me back inside. For some reason, I thought it would be fair to warn the Princess that Lester had plans for her....

A Scattering of Lights

Great peace here. And a window with a bit of sky in it . I love the evening sky. Blue falling into gold into dark. And the first star does come out.......

Hush

Here it is salt and mist; salt on my lips and in my clothes and in my breath, and there is salt in the flowers that the woman brings and so they fade in a house where no light enters, only wet fog and the thunder of guns. The house is sour with the smell of the man above. I clean him. Four times in the night, four times in the day, through a hundred days, I lift him from the bed and lay him on the floor and strip the soiled and sodden sheets and put on fresh, and then I wash the man. He is white, like fish, and he smells like a man who has been dead in the heat too long. In the night after he has been drinking he dreams his devils...........

Fergus the Big Kiss

What do you see? An old brown thing, all shrivelled like the remains of a shoe in picklejuice. Would you believe if I said it was big and red one time? Big and red and shiny and wet. ....and adored by a host of women.Do you see what I am now? - I'm the clapper that rang in the sweetest bell of a mouth. I'm the tongue of Fergus, and I'll wag once more for your ears. Just for you. If it's a boy call it Fergus. Tell everyone what happened. For Fergus of the Big Kiss.