by Jude | Nov 3, 2025 | My LifeStyle
It’s the long wave goodbye, that one that compels our breath into arrhythmic waves while leaving the heart to drown in a sea of pain. It’s the wave your eyes hate to see while refusing to let go. This is the migrants’ lot. As you look back through the receding...
by Jude | May 24, 2025 | My Fiction
Nooo!! The car screeches to a halt, fraction of an inch from his Woom. I can’t breath, my knees smash the asphalt viciously. They don’t hurt, the crazy thump under my ribs is stabbing my eardrums. “You STUPID KID!” The punk behind the wheel blasts off his mouth, his...
by Jude | Mar 2, 2025 | My Fiction
Blue cloudless skies beamed through the open windows. She cursed at them. He heard her and gently squeezed her hand. She gasped for air. He squeezed her hand again, this time tighter, and with desperation. They couldn’t wait for such weather in the past, they would...
by Jude | Jan 16, 2025 | My Fiction
She was all skin and veins, and a lot of bones. Her complexion was the colour of parched earth, painted by the tropical sun. Her throat trembled as she sucked desperately on her spit. Her head, expertly balanced a large basin full of cut pieces of pineapple, mango and...
by Jude | Dec 11, 2024 | My Fiction
It doesn’t stink anymore. It smells of earth, organic and wholesome. The mud sticks to my bare feet and begins a slow, devious crawl up my knees. I want it to. My jeans are a goner. There are flecks everywhere, I have this impulse to wallow in it. I’m in a trench that...
