James Leek
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Achievements (1)
Stories (7/0)
- Top Story - April 2024
- Second Place in Arid Challenge
BerrySecond Place in Arid Challenge
I closed my mouth slowly, deliberately, pressing rather than chewing. It is important to savour. The berry, plucked so long ago from that solitary bush, kept too long in my tattered pouch, was engulfed in my parched silence. It was shrivelled, hard; my tongue pushed it to the roof of my mouth, my throat braced for a burst of sweet juice that never came.
By James Leek5 months ago in Fiction
Right Angles
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. I wish I’d been in space when they had said that, so I hadn’t heard them. But, alas, I was on Earth, and I heard. I heard a lot in my job, heard a lot more in my neighborhood, and I ignored pretty much all of it. Some because I was told to, the rest because . . . Well, it’s just easier, you know? To ignore it, that is.
By James Leek2 years ago in Fiction
The Trainman
The train hit the water at speed, but it didn’t stop. It ploughed on into the deep, the murky blue-grey washing over the windows, and then it started to climb, rumbling along the corroded tracks and churning up the water in its wake. When it reached the surface, it lurched forward and emerged as if nothing had happened.
By James Leek2 years ago in Fiction