TheBrightPearl

Destination down, the journey continues. The new diet is a bit of trial and error. Mum has had to fix food so that I will eat it. She...

Diary of an Overweight Cat Destination Down Along the Diet Path I decided to surprise Mum today. When she arrived home from work, I...

Diary of an Overweight Cat Destination Down The Journey Begins Today Mum took me to the vet. I didn't want to go, and I expressed myself...

The inside of Harold's head was a wonderful, endless place, and Harold was happy to live in his mind. He pottered around his kitchen,...

I stared in the mirror, loathing the image presented; large breasts, hourglass curve at the waist to the wide child-bearing hips. Tears...

Staring at my reflection in the mirror I am jolted by the face looking back at me. Who is this person whose face breathes out winter’s...

One of the problems in the world today is the wilful blindness people exhibit. Take fairies for example, all around are images of pretty,...

I stood in the line at the coffee shop idly listening to the people around me. ‘Are you coming to the movies Wednesday’ from a young girl...

As I walked down familiar streets made unfamiliar; emptiness blooming like a strange mould in the houses I passed. The sky appeared to be...

I crouched down in the dark corner of the rundown barn. My stomach cramping, I had last eaten three days ago. I huddled knees tight...

I knew I shouldn’t have started on the Tequilla. I lay spread-eagled across my bed, head pressed against the wall. The pressure was...

A late start today, I woke up with a really bad headache, so medicated myself and went back and lay down on the bed for a while. With the...

Winter’s coming. We have a nice clear day for the last day of autumn I looking out and through the bare branches on the trees seeing...

124 was spiteful. The spite like bile, a secretion passed from inmate to inmate changing humours into aggression and depression equally....

A still grey day,outside the quiet permeates everything. Inside I am listening and joining in Mantra chanting with Deva Premal Mantras...

A grey and rainy Sunday morning in the last month of Autumn. I look out my windows and visibility is very limited. To combat all the...

A slow start this morning I woke to the sound of rain. Autumn showers, grey sky still holding in the warmth, sun peeking through slanted...

There once was a cat named Serida Who wanted her human to feed her In her twist and turn tactic She performed feline magic Until her...

My earliest childhood memory is painted in my mind in sepia. I am sure this is because of the photos of the house I have seen over the...

My heart hurt, it felt like a decaying leaf in Autumn; dried and discoloured, fallen to the ground and trampled beneath indifference and...