Working Class: The Uninvited Guests of Poetry Oh, poetry, you lofty muse, Your words so grand, your themes so pure, But working class, we're kept outside, Our stories untold, our voices obscured. We're the builders, the makers, the cogs in the wheel, We're the hands that toil, the hearts that feel, But…

In the dying hours of the day the room darkened. What little light there was shone through a gap on the curtains. A few lazy dust motes floated around in the still air. In the corner on a display table was Isabel. The dust motes seemed repelled from this area…

Sci-Fi Friday: The Last Human I look out over the water from the top of my narrowboat. The sky is crimson and gold as the sun rises. Ducks swim past searching for a bite to eat. "Sorry fellas no bread here." …

(This is an ongoing series — See my reading list for earlier episodes?) How do. I’m still not dead. So it’s just me and Bert back on the road again. We have bugger all in the way of supplies but the sun is shining, I’m free and in a great…

Dave was whistling as he entered the Rampant Horse pub. The whistle died on his lips as he saw that Vinny was sat at their usual table grinning and waving an empty pint glass. Dave went glumly to the bar and did the business. He put down a pint…

Linzi closes the door to the kitchen and puts her kit bag on the table. The boys look at her expectantly from their basket. She sighs, it’s been a long night of ghost hunting and the spirits had kept themselves well hidden tonight. …

The building was imposing. In the middle of nowhere and surrounded by high fences. The moonlight seemed to cast long shadows that danced with the wind — tree branches or something more sinister? The owner of the old asylum had refused to attend the ghost hunt but was happy to…

Linzi — Ghost Hunter Diaries 1: Precious Linzi was framed in the doorway as the moonlight seeped in through the cracks between the slats of a boarded up window. Her blonde hair sparkled in the moonlight, her serious expression did not detract from her beauty. She shone the torch down…

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