The secret of seeing rightly.

Yes.

Excerpt from my short story ‘Vinyl’

The dirt ground morphed into black and white linoleum as he opened the door. A bell clanged above his head sounding sick and dried up; just like the landscape.

From the outside the diner had looked dried up too, but inside it was full of colour and life. A waitress was flitting around in a red apron and a smile while the patrons, truckers mostly, eyed her with a harmless hunger; her antics a welcome break from the desert that stretched away from the road in all directions.

“Go to sleep now, little ugly.
Go to sleep now, you little fool.
40 winking in the belfry,
you’ll not feel the drowning”
-The Decemberists ‘You’ll not feel the drowning‘ [ I'm a chronic insomniac - it's so true]

“If I didn’t have you, someone else would do.”
-Tim Minchin ‘If I didn’t have you‘

“You’ve gotta bear your cross but never dream too loud
And you’re tied
Tied to the next time”
-Goo Goo Dolls ‘January Friend‘

And so it happened, on the dreary day,  when he found himself asleep on bench, the cold bite of the wind hiting him down to the marrow, that a frosty specktor lay over his soul.

Even in death his ex-wife chased him away from his bed with the memory of cold feet brushing against his own.

And so it was at the end of the third world war-

“We have laid waste to history, let us never make that mistake again.”

A few moments later the world was no more.

The Aliens had arrived.

Full Time Crazy and Part Time Fangirl
Sometimes a Vulture and One Time a Helicopter
Never One Way – Always Another