Tag: night

• The Mind in Flight

  

  It is three o’clock in the morning.  I sit at my desk, the white screen of my monitor glaring at me defiantly, lost in the silence. There are so few moments like these, when the world around me is sleeping and I am not;  when the eastern horizon is still black and the landborne stars…

  frederick anderson

  September 23, 2021

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  death, experience, hate, imagination, joy, life, loved ones, night, Pain, Thought, time, travel

• The Patient Sea

  

  THe Patient Sea Another ‘short’ from my archives, but a quite special one for me, for reasons I can’t expand upon here.  I hope you enjoy it. The dusk had reached a late, frosted luminosity, as yet too bright to submit to the superiority of the car’s headlights.  A red line topped the western hills…

  frederick anderson

  July 18, 2020

  Short Stories

  hope, memories, night, return, Reunion, romance, seance, seaside, tension

• Social Distancing is Relative

  Anecdotal It’s 2:30am and I’m in my office working.   Did I mention  I do peculiar hours?  That’s one of my ‘cures for the self-confined’.  More on that soon. Anyway, it’s 2:30am and I’m working.  I have the window open so I hear the sound of agitated pacing clearly.   Around my neighbourhood, if you are out…

  frederick anderson

  April 22, 2020

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  addiction, Alone, Contagion, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Infection, night, Self Isolating, Spread