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Tag Archives: Creative writing
Terrible Openings I Paid For
The opening of a book should break the reader apart completely – they should scream as another world bursts into the vacuum of reality. I push my paperback into my rucksack – I don’t care if the pages get damaged. … Continue reading
Washing-up liquid and isolation
The trilobite climbs from the kitchen sink and sits on the draining board. Spring ahead of its appointment opens crocuses and daffodil towers of yellow. A wood fire circulates heat into the radiators, hot coffee circulates heat into me. Sunlight … Continue reading
Posted in Flash, Snapshots
Tagged Benjamin F Jones, bubbles, carapace bunny, competitive dad outtake, creative prose, Creative writing, dreamy, evolution, flash, full time dad, graphite bunny, Isolation, new baby, prose poetry, rhondda writing ynyshir, sparrows, spring sunshine, surreal, trilobite, washing up
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Nose to nose with her rabbit
It’s five-thirty in the morning. The rooks scream but I cannot see them, their sounds are vaccinations in the mist. The terraces are unlit but at one window I see a face. A young girl stares out, arms a triangle … Continue reading
Posted in Flash, Snapshots
Tagged before sunup, Benjamin F Jones, brief prose, bus travel, creative prose, Creative writing, dream writing, dreaming bunny, dreams about slugs, flash, graphite bunny, how dreams are made, rabbit, Rhondda, rooks, salt, short prose, slugs, stagecoach 132, stagecoach 132 ynyshir, surreal, terraces, Ynyshir, young girl awake
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Lunch Worlds
Lunch break. A girl at our table reads Dostoevsky. The guy next to her is in tabloid concentration. I eat my sandwiches and look out through the window. A child on a plastic tricycle watches a bird fly across the … Continue reading
Posted in Scraplets, Snapshots
Tagged archive 2001, autobiography, Benjamin F Jones, creative prose, Creative writing, Dostoevsky, eating, graphite bunny, lunch break, lunch break bunny, march snapshot, observation, office dystopia, office life, Run away with me, tabloids, very short prose
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