He’s playing the piano in the corner with a clunk-clunk-clunk half out of tune his fingers coming down hard on the keys like they owe him for a childhood trauma beating them down in some disjointed rhythm His face … Continue reading »PROSE POEM: Acid Notes
This is Border Country. If you come here on a clear day, you can see into the future. Just a few seconds – but sometimes, that’s enough. It can be lonely. But it is peaceful in a … Continue reading »POEM: The Shore
“Sophie!” you cry. “You know a lot about notebooks. What should I buy?” Well, friend, I have been running a notebook tumblr (and, may I say, one of the earliest notebook tumblrs) for a few years now, and I … Continue reading »My Notebook Recommendations
I believe I’m running out of things to say. Even if I make it all the way through August, I’ll be stymied when it comes to writing anything in September. Oh well. Today I’ll tell you about my Midori Traveller’s … Continue reading »Stationery: my Midori Traveller’s Notebook
Welcome to the month of August, wherein I will be posting something here on my blog every single day. I had intended to get down to business as soon as I’d finished my coffee, but Windows 10 was available for … Continue reading »Blaugust Begins
God, don’t you ever feel like you’re wasting your life? I don’t know what I’m meant to be doing – travelling, experiencing, or whatever – but whatever it is I’m not doing it. I don’t feel like I’m living in … Continue reading »Some Thoughts on Wasting Time
The road at night: an isolating, howling loneliness of endless, empty, deserted suburbia; the plastic, retro loneliness that papers over rot The streetlights cast their orange gleam onto the black asphalt, their purpose to give shape to the shadows … Continue reading »POEM: Perdition
Most of you know this, of course. It would be hard to describe it as a “surprise”, really. Alzheimers takes you down in eight years, give or take; it destroys your brain, and you need that to live. It had … Continue reading »So Terry Pratchett died last week.