make sense of the progression of random events that made them what they
are. This involves a kind of forward-looking faith in life; a conviction that
cause and effect are linked, and that they are themselves more than the
sum of their past.
Yearly Archives: 2013
Durham to play hero. He does not seem to lack the necessary
credentials. It is not that he isn’t handsome, or tall or strong, or
that he doesn’t want to help her, or that he doesn’t love her
– all those things are true. But maybe it is just the scenery that is
wrong. Maybe nothing that happens on stolen ground can
expect a happy ending.
when the triumphant rain falls.
Familiar streets and familiar faces.
Puddles, pints and bricks.
Blue skies and grey skies and night skies
– in all senses of the words.





it goes to show you never can tell.
When you write for a living [and artistic depiction of any means falls so far from what you are good at], you don’t expect you’ll ever see your work/words gracing a gallery wall. And then there came the London launch of Intern Magazine at 71a to prove my assumptions wrong. My words, on a wall [and, of course, free beers for all]. Meet the talent, join the debate.








she said, ‘you’re strange, but don’t change,’
and i let her.