Collision: Aalam – Pressure Point

Aalam was not famed for her patience. It seemed to her that she had been hammering on the door for an age before she had decided to kick it in. In fairness she knew that probably wasn’t even vaguely near the truth. She had come out here expecting trouble. She thought that this woman had [...]

Watershed: F – Funerals And Fuck Ups

He was sure that he had never noticed anyone pay such close attention to a book of condolences at a funeral but everyone had been poring through it as if they were looking for something, and they were. All those months of trawling through information trying to find something to pin on the bastards who [...]

Held Breath: Grisfleur — Aalam

She favoured her mother but had her father’s eyes. No one cared about that shit here except her. There was no one she recognised and to say that out of such a small gathering said a lot. She and her father didn’t see eye to eye about much but she had come partly out of [...]

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: 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 [...]

Establishing Shots: Raefon

“I’m getting self-educated,” I tell people, when they ask what I’m studying.
This is generally after they’ve asked the same question of my best friend, who is a Politics student – sometimes before they’ve launched into their version of the ‘all governments are the same’ rant or asked her ‘are you going to be Prime Minister?’; [...]