I think this is a story written as part of a writing exercise for Utter! Utter! was a a spoken word and creative writing group that has since disbanded. The writing classes were based in Wood Green library. This is from 2011 (26/03/11). The prompts were: Shower, Kite, Caterpillar, Renew, Clean, Rain, Lamb.

Sandro hid in the long grass among the daffodils and other spring flowers. A caterpillar inched it’s way across his nose but he stayed perfectly still. He had already lost a kill due to a kite soaring in the sky above spooking a rabbit he was stalking.

The lamb was within striking distances.

I think this was from the same session. No idea what the prompts were.

The whirring discordant hymns of local authority lawn mowers and edge trimmers, further away the screams and squeals of children chasing each other as their parents look on. The thumping bass of car radio violently pouring out music as it drives by.

A brief quiet, seemingly silent, before you hear the grasshoppers chittering again, before you hear the buzzing bees wandering too close to you.

Again from the same session.

Mother was smiling manically. Entirely attired in pink, she was spring cleaning and was spraying everything with disinfectant. I annoyed her, she loved me, but I annoyed her. Her fussy pride about the cleanliness of the house was at odds with my more laid back approach to tidiness.

Atomised disinfectant hung in the air, a thin mist of following Mother as she sprayed and scrubbed and wiped away any invisible dirt. She had given up on asking me ( or more precisely telling me) to help. Whatever I cleaned did not meet her stringent standards. She would end up redoing what ever I had done.

We were all in the kitchen. Me, mother and my boyfriend Derrin. Derrin fancies mother and was doing a rather bad job of hiding it. He was glaring at her breasts and bum.

I decided to make Derrin a sandwich. Knowing he was a messy eater. Knowing he would drop breadcrumbs and other debris onto the newly cleaned kitchen counter and floor.

Mother smiled politely as Derrin ate but her eyes screamed the words “I just cleaned that 10 mins ago!”