Micky McGuinness

To say that I had a bit of a problem was a bit of an UNDERSTATEMENT.

It’s one of things that always niggle away at the back of your mind: what if…

All clocks are stopped
The last tick is tocked
The pump is now still

The last grain is spent
The final flow’s ebbed
All doubt is gone

The last page has turned
This journey complete…

A slice off a cut loaf is never missed; so I didn’t feel any awkwardness when I got back to the shop. The tight old bastard should’ve upped my pay and dropped my hours long ago; so he had it co…

The old ones said it was the only way to deal with the fever.
I could feel myself burning up; it was as if I was on fire.
I’d much rather be tucked up in bed with the blankets pulled up tigh…

I crossed the street, the cobbles slick from the dew point, stepping over the puddles of horse piss and the mounds of horse manure.
I pushed open the door and entered the snug as I had done so…

Sometimes you have to think out of the box when you have to beat the clock

Nathan Sponsors his old High School’s Annual Halloween Ball…

Mariella had aged before her time; she’d had a hard paper round as we say back home.

Her silky skin had taken on the look and feel of leather; too much drink, too much sun, too many tabs, an…

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‘Thwack’:

the sound of leather upon willow, bored, watching endless cricket matches on hot summer days on the school playing field. Pissing around by the fence next to the railway line; clim…

Still: lying, lips pursed, as if waiting for the kiss of Prince Charming.

Skin like milk, pearlescent in the first timorous rays of the morning light, a tear frozen in time on her cheek.

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Tradition means many different things to many different people…

Not so long ago when pubs used to have signs saying "No Dogs. No Irish."... Garry’s Irish father came to London, looking for work to support his family. Now Garry was coming to London look for him

From the depths of the ocean…

After a night on the Trappist Ales is it wise to cycle home along the canal-side?

The land was flat, as far as the eye could see.
Field upon field of cabbages stretched out to the horizon.

The farmer had a problem; no one in the town wanted to pick his cabbages: they wer…

Once upon a time, in a far away land, in a small town; the townsfolk woke up one morning to find an egg in the middle of the square.

It was just an ordinary egg; not big; not small. In fa…