This is a reprinting from The Short Answer pamphlet from 2016. “A chapbook of Drabbles – a dozen short fictions of 100 words”.

I decided to reprint this one after having an afternoon of wandering around drinking teas in cafes in town with my lovely friend, Munizha Ahmad-Cooke. Munizha said this is one of her favourites from The Short Answer chapbook.

Turn The Page

Unspeakable beauty, like the floating harmonic deep in keening tinnitus. Words break free, and my sentence struggles away from me, my grasp slipping a grip, like a  hand slipping  a glove. She tears from my skin and flies. Ricocheting my awareness of “I” into a bounding and rebounding silence. A silent creeping vibration, like the tap-tap tapping of a solitary black widow on her dew-luminous web, alone at night. A fly has slipped it’s shackles and fled. A silent creeping vibration of voidness, null, empty and zero.
The one that got away.