'Never satiated' (published in Big Red Cat Issue #2)

Scream if you need to go faster, if that's your desire, say the old adage: the customer is always right, is king, and so survey their subjects with dispassionate eyes, demanding. I order some nibbles and remain at the bar with every fibre, despondently slotting them in like a 10p machine rigged against us, until the bowl is clean. The light dims and kitchen closes so I settle and slip home. Never satiated with another bite, another course; a cigarette with the ash hanging on. Drag this skinny fry through that mayo and swallow whole. I feel like an eclair slammed in a car door, dairy on passenger seat, on headrests, which detach if you were sinking as weapons with which to smash through a window and escape. I keep one to hand now. The rest is articulated elsewhere, not in words but senseless consonants clattering in gibberish. I have no business to settle with you. The conversation ends, and here you are: playing chess as both colours to win.

Sign on the Door



Welcome to the Stanza Room.
I do hope you’ll stay a while.
The Room is space for poetry, prose,
short stories, and other writings to be shared.

I am your host – the words here and
elsewhere in the Room are my own.

I ask you to be respectful of our neighbours
and leave quietly on your way out of the Room.
You may take with you these words at your
own discretion and return them when you are
finished to allow others to use them after you.

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