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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Second Sight: When Matt[y] Met [Anna in the] Alley

He sees the girl, for the first time, in his alleyway; the place where he comes to think when no one’s home: Raef out, Sasha out, Mike out.
The few people he has left on his side.
He likes this alleyway because even though alleyways are supposed to be scary, this one is slightly lit up and [...]

Second Sight: Raefon Tries

It’s weird how people differ in the way they regard spontaneity. These days, generally, I resist it. The times when I relent give off a sense of teetering on the border of instability. That’s the world we’re living in: one where any urges that might provide us with happiness are suppressed, yet some of the [...]