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Warm sand filled the gaps between her toes as plump grey clouds covered the blue sky like a blanket. The rumble of thunder hit the pit of her stomach and shut her eyes deeply inhaling the smell of rain on its way as the cool breeze tickled her face. Streak lightning instinctively forced her eyes open and the squawk of white cockatoo’s pinched at her anxiety as she ran back to the beach hut to take shelter. The storm left as quickly as it came and she wished the darkness of melancholy would leave… Continue

Your pathetic echoes of pleasantries waft from your lips like smoke off incense, it dissipates in the air to nothing. The sound of your acid tongue is familiar as is that fake smile of attempted niceness that jerks from you like vomit. Bitter cold words spat in volcanic ash exemplify your fear and simplistic existence simplicity. That hollow nothing you feel when you talk to me is all I have left and don’t dare put the blame on me when I don’t smile sweetly back at you anymore, my retreat is you… Continue

You promised so much and for a moment even I thought you were a welcomed arrival, but your sweet taste eventually soured on all our tongues, which is ironic as we all convinced her that she needed you during this melancholy retreat. You poured yourself over her during a silent surrender and with a red face, swollen ankles and frozen tears she bubbled below the surface, while you made it hard to see. Her dreams filled with ghosts whose large dark hands reached out from the nite smothering her fac… Continue

They called her the joker because her tattooed eye and lip liner was a permanent fixture on her face and was not about saving time but about preserving youth.Her double D bust was not of her natural frame and these artificial breasts arrived before her skinny shapeless figure did. Desperate to be young she never let age limit wardrobe choices of short corporate skirts and black bras under tightly fitted white blouses that left her feeling sexy. Her disposition was nasty; she’d speak quickly, sha… Continue