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Confess
CuriousThrowaway seemed… well, curious. I saw his post on the LondonR4R subreddit, and I was curious too. He was anonymous, intriguing, and I was interested. It was late at night and he wanted to play a game. He asked for people to message him with their secrets and their fantasies. He asked me to confess…
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I Know It’s Over
I was doing my degree in keeping secrets and stealing kisses,The Smiths whined on scratched vinyl in the background,and I wanted you more than I wanted to graduate.I’d stay up late,drinking to forget you after you’d gone,because I was a bastardisation of my father’s daughter,lost child, losing her shit in the valleys of your body,never…
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The Lonely Narcissist’s Lament
Every now and again,I get lost in the lustful looks you leave all across my body,and I find myself aflame,wondering if it would feel the same for your hands to replace your hungry eyes. That is normally the point where I start to cry. I’ve never been to war,but my past has fucked me up,and…
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Victoria Station
The storm clatters above in the sky,and I shuffle off the bus,face to face with the unknown.The streets seem to snarl at me,my body, howling with hunger,louder than the thunder I wander under.I start to wonder if I will ever be seen again,sinking into the shadows,captured by the clouded night,running from the rain as it…
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Everybody Out!
Sell me a space in the shadows,let me live behind a locked door,surrounded by the sweetness of unspeculative silence. I care for the kind of quiet that doesn’t guess,a lush loneliness,moonlight serenade of stillness. I am sleeping in the dreams of somebody else tonight,littered with letters,sewn onto my skin,because I stopped being convincing, somewhere in…