George took the Patrol to pick his son Mark up from the international airport. Ordinarily he was very careful about its mileage and the Patrol burned ...
He heard the shower running when he woke up. He hoped she wouldn't use all the water and then felt bad for thinking it. The feel of toast milling betw ...
It’s not unusual for kids to grow up in dysfunctional families and fucked up environments and consider it all very normal. As Christof, the megalomani ...
Christian Christian Senior strolled into McMahon Sports Bar either unaffected or unaware of his lateness. His punctuality or lack thereof was commonly ...
Max stood at the restaurant’s dispensing station nearest the main entrance on the corner of Oxford Road and Portland Street. People use to call him Ma ...
The Anarchist Crab scuttled back and forth in a fury of panic. This occurred daily. Yet, it never altered or dented the vexation and venom with which ...
The Tedious Giraffe wasn't to blame. She was taller than most giraffes and covered in big, brown, woolly oblong patches. She was well beyond the sharp ...
Light swell slaps the wooden hull. Gonzalos, the Bolivian Vegetarian Mosquito stands shivering on the cleat at the pointed bow of the life boat. He ha ...
Before Lunagirl has time to react Rainfish has her arm like a leash. ‘Come-n’ - We carn’t slow down. Fouk’it Shades. Don’t stop.’ That’s what Rainfish ...
...before the foxes came I'm told wild areas still grew - before the foxes came and towns gobbled up the ground. Towns gobbled up the ground, bit by b ...
Bill looked down at his plate and touched his knife and fork together. He surprised himself by how little he’d eaten. Sausages were the limit of his w ...
She started working at the soap factory when it opened in autumn. He walked her home through the butterscotch and peanut brittle leaves. He was the so ...
The plane soared upward like a ballistic Phoenix until it was a splinter in the sun and everyone squinted and turned away. They missed it curl around. ...
He met another Lizzy in Manchester. He named her Anne. He first saw her between the Old House at Home and Lotus Chinese Takeaway. She walked past him ...
David McNamara
Author, artist, pilgrim & wayfarer
