Wildfires continue to intensify across the state of California, putting significant pressure on emergency services. Keeping the fires under control is both difficult and expensive due to the rate at which they can spread, at times fuelled by winds over 74 mph. Over 6000 fires have been recorded so far this year, covering over 250,000…
Creative Writing
Summer in September
Across from you, I hide in plain sight, sipping on a fix Of iced coffee and neurosis. Watching your words spout Off into sentences which resolve into open air then collect Into piles at my feet. Little tapes of thought reeling out In tandem, a tangle, a tender blur of noise I cannot grasp Nor…
Creative Writing
The Coaster Bird
Amidst the soak of roars and rain A sodden jackdaw falls, brings The weight of dampened feathers down To ink the bend of a coaster. Underneath, the children lean Against a painted bearing pole With sugar lumps like poppyseeds All scattered on their chests. An hour they have waited just to touch the crackled air…
Travel
Best and worst airline food
I don’t know about you, but I look forward to meal times during flights. Not only does it pass the time, but I am always excited to receive the little trays and finding out what is in each of the compartments. If you’re like me, airline food can really determine the whole flight experience, so…
Creative Writing
Haiku’s on A Winter Morning
Children with eyes wide, Exhale their warm breath slowly To watch the air dance. – Misty clouds of air Evaporate around me, And trouble my mind. – The frostbitten grass, waits timelessly, in the cold, hopeful for the sun. Like Concrete on Facebook to stay up to date
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