It was summer in the city and she was the kind of spirit who could love the heat in all its form and ways.

The heat burnt the pavement and sent forth plumes of desire into the city air.

She was the matriarch of this, this yesterday vision that extended far and wide.

I made her eyes hurt, she burned for sunlight.

She set off with a hip flask and a jar of yellow roses.  To go and scatter, as she said ~

‘upon the stony ground…

He sat facing the amber light from the fire, a sleek greyish black hound curled near his feet, stretching and snoozing in the warmth.

He was slowly turning the pages of his latest rare possession, the velum pages turning over crisply, the gold from the…

The hour we were married, the bells started their harmonious rendition of 'Green Sleeves', their golden, brassy sound resonated through the building. You looked at me in my floor length green dress and it was a magic moment that couldn’t have been predicted, our wedding day was blessed.

You looked so mature, dressed in deep purple, with an aura of seriousness but with a never faltering bright smile.You held my hands and we exchanged words and rings, like Celtic twining branches of…

I looked into his greyish, pale blue eyes, I circled that dark indigo rim around each of his irises and he stared back, unblinking, watching me watch him.

I knew he was lying.

He couldn’t take that look off his face of unashamed amusement, he revelled in every lie that trickled from his lips, he would catch them, and like a long line of white string, started winding and knotting it tight. Capturing every soul like blades of grass, to be used and discarded to protect this…