M.K. Lee's Blog: Telling Tales, page 92
March 16, 2020
No Day, No Night
No night, no day,
No day, no night
Passes without thinking,
Was this ever right?
No words, no thoughts,
No thoughts, no words
Can be repeated
Thatll ever be heard.
No sounds, no lights,
No lights, no sounds
Will ever make sense
Of anything now.
© M K Lee
Newsletter #6
March 14, 2020
Shades Of Me
A short collection of poetry based loosely around the theme of colour.
Buy hereA Restless Heart
Most of Tylers Friday was spent on edge and distracted, both because of the previous evening in his apartment, and his mind constantly wandering to Xavier. And although of late he was quite used to feeling off, it was in an entirely different way since Xaviers visit. He found himself rethinking many of Ashers comments that hed first thought were given purely to warn him about his slightly eccentric friend. But having now met Xavier for himselfproperlyTyler couldnt help...
March 13, 2020
From Coffee Shop Corners
People watching might be Georges favourite way to spend his time. Why wouldnt 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 hes 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 hes running from, George can think of...
March 12, 2020
Foggy
Sunday mornings.
The not-quite-a-hangover fuzzy feeling on the inside of your temples,
Not quite nausea, but enough to suppress your appetite,
Not quite tired, but batteries down to their red percent.
Monday mornings.
Not quite anxious, but running on dread.
Not quite hopeless, but no objection if dead.
Although not quite defeated, no desire to win just yet.
Fog day mornings
All of the above but blended, churned, blitzed into one.
Foggy in all your decisions, foggy about all youve done.
Fogginess...
March 11, 2020
A New Experience
Meet college roommates Derek and Jordan. Jordan is frustrated and inexperienced; Derek quite literally gives him a hand.
This is NOT safe for work, just to warn you. For those of you who follow/have followed me elsewhere, you might recognise this story in another guise
Derek had never been good at getting the cold shoulder. Hed go out of his way to try to turn the mood round of whoever was annoyed at him, whether he felt they were justified for it or not. Hed spent all his childhood...
#writephoto – Torrent
For the #writephoto prompt Torrent by Sue Vincent On a morning walk,
In the depths of green
Comes crashing a torrent of
Replenishing blue;
At least, it would be blue, were it not for the storm bringing bark and branch and brown in deluge to an otherwise peaceful scene. Beautiful, but also a warning that Nature came first and will claim all again.
March 10, 2020
Hook
I would tell you thatyou’re off the hook,
But having something so invasive withdrawn from your skin
Must cause pain.
And losing me, you won’t notice. You won’t feel a thing.
I would tell you thatyou’re off the hook,
But that would mean I had ensnared you to begin with,
And that would be a falsehood worthy of a fishwive’s tale,
Since you’ve never even noticed me here, holding on.
I would tell you thatyou’re off the hook,
But you were always someone else’s catch,
And I was only some twinkling...
March 9, 2020
Tainted By Our Choices
Tainted by our choices is a contemporary romance that has flashbacks, sex, environmental awareness, and a slight fixation on dessert. Potentially all at the same time.
Meet Jack. A successful environmental officer working within an industry that is so very far from his childhood dream of saving the planet, that he no longer recognizes himself. How hes found himself in Houston, Texas, where he has no one, and nothing but his work for company, he tells himself repeatedly he doesnt know. But...
