Tom Williams
Bio
A PhD student who loves writing anything and everything BUT their PhD thesis
Stories (4/0)
The Man from Medan
It is with a shaking hand that the Captain raises a tumbler of arak putih to his lips. The white liquor, cheap and easy to acquire around the Malay peninsula, is coarse but offers a comforting familiarity. The night is black and still. The crew are restless.
By Tom Williams3 years ago in Horror
Norfolk
We decided to take an extended weekend away, staying in a beach hut in Norfolk England. I say ‘decided’, it was more ‘reluctantly agreed’ on my part… or ‘acquiesced’, is that the word? All this in the early part of the month of March mind you, which habitually clings to winter in the British Isles. She said, “it might be a bit nippy”. I had considered rattling off a fact I knew about how some pagan civilisations referred to the March equinox as the official end of winter, and that this differs from the meteorological definition of the season’s end, but didn’t bother. Ruminating over the unconventional timing and nature of this beach trip, I supposed she was feeling a staleness creep into our relationship and figured that a short break away and change of scenery might help reignite the spark. She had watched The Holiday recently, I think that’s what happens in that. All I knew was, it meant four days without FIFA or Call of Duty. Bitch.
By Tom Williams3 years ago in Humans