Onward Steps: Raefon Keeps Vigil

Someone was pounding my door in. I grabbed a chipped baseball bat from beside the desk and headed out to the hall – which is a grandiose term for two foot of dirty matting; dumping ground for take-away menus, fliers and my shoes when I kicked them off each night.
Switched the light on. Stupid, if [...]

Onward Steps: Grisfleur Floating

The world fractured into retina spots, a prismatic spray of colour. Sound arrived through the rushing sluice of blood that drowned any noise that possessed anything of subtlety. His swollen tongue moving dumbly in his mouth. He pressed the button that released more pain medication into his bloodstream, an ugly smile spreading across his face. [...]

Remix: Raefon Makes A Mess

Beautiful.
I’d wiped out all the progress made in twenty minutes.
He was out of it, or at least heading that way; there are four registered alcoholics in my family, and one ‘recovering’ Junkie, so I knew the signs.
To summarise: I can’t even hold the interest of a piss-head. Unless he wasn’t a piss-head, and I’d driven [...]

Remix: Harry’s Holes

“Tough luck about your old lady, Harry, seriously.” Connor slid a leftover lamb-chop out of the fridge and began to gnaw at it.
“This’s break-up’s been a year in the making. Dunno why I’m so…”
“Lost? Cuz your snatch took a hike. God, this lamb is fucking awesome.”
“You’re a pal, Con. Thanks. I ended it, by the [...]

Remix: Grisfleur – The Push

This was novel: sat there with someone that he didn’t want to abandon after the first ten minutes. Her nervousness was endearing. The thing was he had brought them to a bar — he always brought everyone to a bar; drinking was the only way that he knew how to facilitate social interaction. All the [...]

Remix: G Is For Gravity

It was his fault: it was her brother’s fault — him and his stupid talk of revenge, his stupid argument. If it wasn’t for him her son would still be alive: her beautiful son. Nothing he could do would bring him back — and what did he do after they had laid her son to [...]

Mix: Rien – Nobody’s Baby

You rarely slept. Rien wasn’t sure if it was because he didn’t require it, or if it was because he was aware of how much of a target he was. He didn’t speak at all, not to Rien, anyway. But somehow she knew what he wanted to convey.
He drank coffee like it had the antidote [...]

Mix: Raefon Overloads

Driving around the countryside is definitely not like taking a walk in it; at no point did I stop to zoom in on an oblivious squirrel or admire any unusually-shaped trees; nor did I smile simply from the joy of detouring along a beaten path of sunlight, filtering through arches of leaves down into the [...]

Mix: Grisfleur The Wanderer

He walked for an age, walked away from the town down a long winding country road. He had always thought that he hated the country but whenever he forced himself to make the effort and notice the things which he wilfully ignored most of the time he was surprised at how beautiful he found everything. [...]

Mix: F Is For Fateful

They never turned up at the bar, obviously mistaking him for some nut job they didn’t need to bother with, so he had gone home, or at least to the place he was temporarily calling home while he got himself sorted.
He’d been visiting with his sister, taking a breather from the execution of the big [...]