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Goddess Bless Us, Everyone! – Part Two
April spent her Christmas Eve in solitude. She enjoyed a long bubble bath before retiring to bed with her scriptures, and her tapes. The Garden had a long tradition of utilising strange recordings with subliminal messages to unlock their minds and their connection to their treasured Goddess Invierno, and as she had ascended to leadership,…
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Goddess Bless Us, Everyone! – Part One
Celia Jefferson was dead to begin with. There was no doubt whatever about that. As her daughter April sat by her resettled grave, surrounded by flowers that seemed to shine in the sheen of winter’s frost, the girl could only sigh. Old Celia was dead as a door-nail, and now, The Garden of The Free…
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And One Day, I’ll Steal You
You try to buy my silence with kisses,cramming our secrets into parted,pretty,plump lips with a tongue that has grown so used to telling lies.You never lie to anyone but me,so I’ve started to see your dishonesty as something special. The lie is that I am going to be okay.I know it’s over.Not us, of course,but…
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Life Is For Lovers
Life is for lovers.That’s what you traced with your tongue on my trembling lips,as we kissed from one day to the next,moored at midnight but making our way into morning,the moon shining across the icy, frost filled garden that we shivered in.It was puerile to be so passionate,but there was nothing else for it,and I…
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Santa Claus Is Back In Town
Christmas is my favourite time of the year. I love to deliver gifts around the community to help people find the spirit of the season. I suppose you could call me Santa Claus… I’m not the real one, of course, but I may as well be. I give a little something to every house I…