Gerald sat staring at the free newspaper that he had found on the doormat, but the stories about school exam …
Author: Chris Short
Further than expected
Hegarty hadn’t intended things to take such a turn, far from it. He’d genuinely just wanted to see the view …
Poetry can rhyme
Poems benefit from having a themeAs long as it isn’t ‘it was all a dream’.Poems are better forFull use of …
Return to Zone K
We were having such a good laugh at the expense of a fat girl staggering along on high heels; short …
Paradise
My neighbour’s been to Canada, and now he knows all about it. As far as I understand he’s only been …
Nobel Laureate
The tests are promising – now run the stats. A piddling two percent for no effect, And eighty three percent …
Double glazing
Of course Philip’s had his own room for forty years now, but it was only last month that I decided …
Head start
The governors of St Oswald’s were delighted that Gordon Stanmore was starting today as their new Head Teacher. The preceding …
The punster
Nige delighted in puns. They came so readily to his lips that he could hardly manage a sentence without one. …
All black
A ‘wardrobe malfunction’