This piece was written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'energy'. With my eyesight rapidly fading, I’m forced to type using a dictation app (so please excuse any Type O’s and things I oughta correct) and I’m reduced to getting my news from the radio and podcasts, but I’m not sure … Continue reading Who the hell is Lou Ming?

This piece was written for the Six Sentence Story Challenge, with the prompt word of 'branch'. I was halfway through reading out a news story about how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall when Ken Oath, as was his wont, interrupted to branch off into ‘That reminds me of the dreadful potholes … Continue reading I’d love to turn you off, Ken Oath

This piece was written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'structure'. What the hell it means I have no idea. 😉 To describe what Jerry had built as a ‘structure’ strained the definition to breaking point and made Escher’s multi-dimensional fantasies seem like a housing project blueprint in comparison. The foundations, … Continue reading The house that Jerry built

This piece was adapted from an earlier piece of mine for the Six Sentence Challenge, for the prompt word of 'film'. I’ve picked up a job as an extra in the Coen brothers' new film, ‘Fargo Is No Country For Old Men’, starring Nicole Theron, and I’m Customer No. 3 on the set of the … Continue reading A dollar’s worth of vampiric destiny

This piece was written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'guard'. Initially, Lester thought it would be interesting to share a cell with Jake, an Australian, given that over the years he’d shared a toilet and washbasin with guys from almost all of the 50 States, but it wasn’t long before … Continue reading Single cell Nirvana

This piece has been adapted from a longer work about my days as a roadie for largely forgettable rock bands in the 1970's. It responds to the Six Sentence Challenge prompt word of 'band'. This was a new band I was ‘auditioning’ for as their full-time roadie, in a sticky-carpeted outer suburban hotel where,  as … Continue reading You learn to smell it

This piece was written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'form' He had shape, in the sense that a woman bearing twins has shape but he carried it much lower, folded over his belt that was cinched to his hips, which led to wags saying that he had a veranda over … Continue reading In every way, shape and form

This piece was written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'beat'. Angus Hardy’s heart beat only for the imported American teacher, Miss Anderson, with her green eyes, set in her lightly freckled face, mesmerising him to the point that he imagined they were looking deep into his and knew what he … Continue reading Angus finds his primary love

These pieces were written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'sin'. Sin - Disambiguation from Wackypedia Sin-22 – Catch-all for any sins we forgot first time around Sincerity – That which once you can fake, you’ve got it made ‘Sin – Cry sometimes heard from the putting green Syntax – Inexhaustible … Continue reading Let he who is not stoned cast the first sin

This piece was written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'space'. Bert and Gladys were folding up the tent on their camper trailer when Bert said “Gladys, you know how we were sleeping in the space inside the tent last night?” Gladys said ruefully “Well, you were doing most of the … Continue reading I think we need some space