all you really need
the nights you wake up screaming from dreams that seize you with worms that suck with tender lips your daring resolution to go on the nights when prose lies dead […]
the nights you wake up screaming from dreams that seize you with worms that suck with tender lips your daring resolution to go on the nights when prose lies dead […]
Through cobwebs of lingering sawdust he saw opportunities gone. Once he had hunger for success, for business innovation, for being an encouraging father and a caring husband. Now it was […]
The oily river floats like molten lead, trying in vain to swallow my lugubrious memories. The last day at the hospice you said; – Remember, I will always walk beside […]
the clouds lament in solitude as sea is sighing sorrow the footprints leading out to sea a soul of no tomorrow recalling what she wrote to him about his foul […]
Mark entered the room to empty himself of Emily. It had been three months since the police came. The pink wallpaper reminded him how insistent she had been for the […]
Writing about living in two places (and times)
Poems & Stories from The Author Stew
practising for a whole life
haikai poetry matters
Running in the slow lane
The view from here ... Or here!
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
chronicling my quarter life crisis