M.K. Lee's Blog: Telling Tales, page 36
January 19, 2021
My Books
Raife and Dexter Are Getting Married
Raife and Dexter are one of those couples who make lonely people reach for a bucket of ice cream and watch Bridget Jones for the hundredth time. They also just happen to be getting married, in the most perfect of venues, surrounded by their closest family and friends. Life couldn’t be better for them. They have good careers, a beautiful house, and still make heart eyes at each other because they are so ridiculously, sappily in love. Doesn’t it make you si...
Damn
“You don’t mean it.”
Nathan’s heart was in his throat. This couldn’t be it, couldn’t be the end of everything after three whole years.
They’d started to build a life together, already shared a home. Their families met and mingled, and there had even been some heartfelt conversations about having kids. So he couldn’t be hearing Sean right. Sean couldn’t truly be saying goodbye.
Nathan watched him continue packing with his back to him, holding his breath as Sean turned around.
“You do...
January 18, 2021
Rumour
The rumour was one that had taken a grip on Enzo when he was young. He’d grown up dreaming of the sea, wistfully staring out his bedroom window when he couldn’t be there himself. Enzo loved the beach, spent every moment he could out on the sand, or in the water. People told him he was more at home in the sea than on land, and Enzo couldn’t argue; out there in the water, the rumour felt closer, and more real.
Aged twenty-one, out on a paddleboard alone on his birthday, the rumour rose from the...
January 17, 2021
Cuckoo In My Nest
You are a cuckoo in my nest.
A game you’ll win with no contest,
Because I chose to leave.
From a distance I can see
You placing things to replace me;
I shouldn’t grieve.
I’ve felt so distant for so long,
Maybe I never did belong,
But don’t for one minute believe
That when some empathy is needed
The words ‘you’re family’ will be heeded;
That’s not the reality I perceive.
© M K Lee
From Coffee Shop Corners
People watching might be George’s favourite way to spend his time. Why wouldn’t he lose himself in dreaming up the loves and lives of other people to escape the mess that is his own? From this new favourite cafe corner, in the new town he’s made his home, George makes up backstories for each of the baristas. And as they serve coffee, George imagines happily ever afters for their waiting customers. But when a surprise email forces him to relive the heartache he’s running from, George can thin...
January 16, 2021
Point Of No Return
“You remember when we-”
He says, a reminiscent smile on his face as he leans on the terrace railing and stares out over the water. His voice fades away, but you don’t need him to finish the words, because you do; you do remember. A small boat, white with a navy blue trim around its flank. Sea spray striking your skin as wind whipped up your hair. Your hands on the steering wheel, though he was the one steering; pressed up tight against your back with his hands around your middle, gentle f...
From Coffee Shop Corners
People watching might be George’s favourite way to spend his time. Why wouldn’t he lose himself in dreaming up the loves and lives of other people to escape the mess that is his own? From this new favourite cafe corner, in the new town he’s made his home, George makes up backstories for each of the baristas. And as they serve coffee, George imagines happily ever afters for their waiting customers. But when a surprise email forces him to relive the heartache he’s running from, George can thin...
Dog
Dog sits in his prison glad of the blanket protecting him from the stone cold floor. His name isn’t Dog, or Angus like the kind people caring for him call him. It used to be Bailey. Though he’ll answer to just about anything if someone would just love him.
Dog knows this isn’t a prison either. It’s one step away from being alone in the world and starving. Dog remembers cold nights and feeding on chicken carcasses when he got kicked out. He still feels the ache of that boot on his flank. It h...
January 15, 2021
Painful
You are too painful to keep around.
Don’t roll your eyes. I know that’s what you’re doing.
Your silence is the loudest of all sounds,
Next to the here we go again sighing
That you’re doing right now.
Just go ahead and fuck off, walk away.
There is no joy in feeling myself burden
One moment, and worth killing time with the next day.
You’re not the first to cause my heart to harden
So there’s no obligation to stay.
When did I give you permission
To use me as verbal punching bag?
I think I’d rememb...
From Coffee Shop Corners – Quote
People watching might be George’s favourite way to spend his time. Why wouldn’t he lose himself in dreaming up the loves and lives of other people to escape the mess that is his own? From this new favourite cafe corner, in the new town he’s made his home, George makes up backstories for each of the baristas. And as they serve coffee, George imagines happily ever afters for their waiting customers. But when a surprise email forces him to relive the heartache he’s running from, George can thin...
