My five year old self sits on the toilet, door open so I can see the top flight of stairs inhabited by shadows from a skylight. There’s a closed door at the end of the twilight; escaping from the keyless lock is sunlight full of dust motes that float. I am torn between a monster […]
Tag: Monsters
Sea Dragon
No roar of fire or brimstone, no cloud of dust erupts from the fossilised mosaic of forefin, ribs and backbone. The extended tail’s a fake, implanted in the rocky tomb. She’s a mislabelled, 200 million-year-old surprise: an ancient monster that terrorised the primordial Somerset coast concealed the incomplete bones of a sea dragon embryo. Kim […]
Monsters
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Writing Prompt #151 “Collage 19” ‘We stopped checking for monsters under the bed when we realized they were inside of us.’ Charles Darwin. We stopped checking for monsters under the bed, the sandman, and the bogeyman in the closet, and searched elsewhere for our thrills instead: ghost hunting in abandoned […]
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