Daily Archives: September 27th, 2009

Carbon is my role model: I wish I could spontaneously turn into something tough, beautiful and highly prized when under extreme pressure….

She could feel goodbye in him. But she would never consummate the pain of parting with the flesh of words. She would tell him one more time, and then let it drift away like a tissue lantern carried by a single flame, a butter lamp on the Ganges….a whisper on a summer breeze.

My Darling,

This thing that I do now, you will not understand for many years. Then, when you see the motif in the context of  the canvas that is your life, you will realise how it has brought you to that point. I hope that you will believe in the love I feel for you in everything I do. Even this.

Mother.

Eric never looked back. That was Kyle’s responsibility. Eric inferred that it was because of an old leap-frog injury, but Kyle suspected fowl play.

Walking down the stairs, she suddenly realised that she remembered who she was; who she had been. She had missed being herself. It was as though she had found a foothold on the sheer face of life, and the euphoria of finding it had somehow enabled her to fly the rest of the way to the summit.