Cut-up story: Lies on the cliff
By E.L. Parfitt , author of Seascape, Shattered Roses and Temptation & Mozzarella. This month I took some time to be creative with a pile of old scribbles I had made in a spiral notebook. Here is the result. Short story: Lies on the cliff It’s an uncertain coming of age: a catcher in the rye. There are lies breathing on the cliff surrounding the house. It’s maddening that, trying to work out what’s the point of a lot of things. A conscious faltering. Control. End. The precipice… I can’t imagine how… slowly it becomes the tale gone wrong. God knows we all sprint off the edge in the end; dependant on twilight feelings of anger. The doctors did not know what to expect. Each time they considered how it came to be I wanted to ask, ‘Why bother?’ I left the room for a cigarette break. I know that surprises you because I don’t smoke. I wanted to leave. To breathe in the peaceful alchemy of being absent. Art came, was born, died. “If you love someone,...