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Prologue
Prologue
Remember that scene in Jurassic Park? The one just before the T-Rex chomps down on Jeff Goldblum? Or was it the accountant? The kids are…
Tarwin Stroh-Spijer
Aug 4, 2017
五下七下五
五下七下五
Go Ue Nana Ue Go 5 over 7 over 5
Tarwin Stroh-Spijer
Jun 22, 2017
Chocolate
Chocolate
“Penis chocolate?”.
Tarwin Stroh-Spijer
Jun 22, 2017
Home
Home
[This was written a long time ago]
Tarwin Stroh-Spijer
Jun 22, 2017
The Cerulean and the Supernova
The Cerulean and the Supernova
Terry lay there, alone. It wasn’t by choice that she was alone, unless you count all the small choices that she’d made every minute up to…
Tarwin Stroh-Spijer
Jun 22, 2017
Double Jeremy
Double Jeremy
He’d been a quiet foal. While his friends were off cantering through strawberry fields throwing sparkles at each other Jeremy would be…
Tarwin Stroh-Spijer
Mar 18, 2016
Four dozen and counting
Four dozen and counting
“Benny Goodman’s my name and today sir you’re in luck because stuffin’s my game!”
Tarwin Stroh-Spijer
Mar 17, 2016
Long tail
Long tail
I once was a boy or at least I thought I was. Years ago that changed. I’d had a niggling feelings things were a little different for me…
Tarwin Stroh-Spijer
Mar 17, 2016
Partly right
Partly right
I make predictions. I’m pretty good at it, or so my friends tell me; I don’t like to brag. They’re not big predictions. You wouldn’t want…
Tarwin Stroh-Spijer
Mar 16, 2016
175 characters of missing you
175 characters of missing you
My finger froze above SEND. The cold catatonia sweeping up my arm to my clenched jaw. Each message I sent I wrote quicker than the last…
Tarwin Stroh-Spijer
Mar 16, 2016
Absentile
Absentile
My mother died before I was born. Not long before I hear, but long enough that I never met her. This was the proper way of the cycle.
Tarwin Stroh-Spijer
Mar 16, 2016
10 dollars a pop
10 dollars a pop
She stood very still, looking at me with piercing eyes. I’d first seen her weeks ago, enmeshed in conversation with an acquaintance . I…
Tarwin Stroh-Spijer
Mar 16, 2016
Like … Though … But no …
Like … Though … But no …
The day was a long one. The day was a happy one. It was the day I lost myself.
Tarwin Stroh-Spijer
Mar 16, 2016
Home within range
Home within range
There are times when the world moves too fast. When you wished simply for time to stop. When the act of brushing your teeth for the…
Tarwin Stroh-Spijer
Mar 16, 2016
Party favours
Party favours
They hated each other, Graham and Nancy. Not enough to be outwardly hostile, but just enough that when they were forced to be in the same…
Tarwin Stroh-Spijer
Mar 16, 2016
Couch
Couch
He hadn’t expected it to start this way. What he had in mind was a slower progression, a meandering watz or drawn out peregrination of…
Tarwin Stroh-Spijer
Mar 16, 2016
Mind the beer
Mind the beer
You’d think being able to read minds would make life easier. Especially when it came to the ladies. But for some reason I just can’t seem…
Tarwin Stroh-Spijer
Mar 16, 2016
Ear sandwiches
Ear sandwiches
“I work two jobs because my wife passed away. I work at a restaurant during the day, and drive this [tow truck] at night. It was back in…
Tarwin Stroh-Spijer
Mar 16, 2016
Again. Never. Again!
Again. Never. Again!
This had never happened before. Again? I guess it has, but not like this. I can’t look too disappointed, sympathetic face, show I want but…
Tarwin Stroh-Spijer
Mar 16, 2016
Johnny be good
Johnny be good
Day 2
Tarwin Stroh-Spijer
Oct 4, 2013
200 words to infinity
200 words to infinity
Or how I learned to stop worrying and love to write
Tarwin Stroh-Spijer
Oct 2, 2013
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