Archive for October, 2007

Lost souls

Sit down, Mr. Witness. Your pictures are back from the X-ray department. I’ll be with you in one wee moment.”
This is wrong. All wrong. A doctor’s tone is not supposed to be this psychotically cheery. The addition of a sing-song Scottish accent only serves to add to the impression that I am about to be told […]

Exciting site news

If you are new to An Unreliable Witness, hello and welcome. You may wish to browse the About page, which has just been rewritten to provide even less information concerning this site and its creator than it did before.
If you are familiar with An Unreliable Witness, thanks for your continued stoicism in the face of so […]

Coded promises

That’s right, that’s right, that’s you. You come along here, bold and brazen as you like, and you smash glasses, crockery, fingers and thumbs, sticks and stones against the rocks, you break my bones because names will never hurt me, and then you lean forward. Conspiratorially. Warily. Carefully. Cast your eyes into my skull and […]

Gone fishing

Kick off my shoes and go outside. Grass, gravel, dirt, dust: feel them all surging and sticking between my toes. Head down to the disused canal - more picturesque than such an uninspiring location has any right to be - to find my favourite bench along the quietest stretch, just before the incline, and sit. […]

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Unsigned confession

welcome to your nervous illness your nervous system your fluttering and your fluctuating cue clamouring voices are the clamouring voices ready yes ready we’re ready as of a decade ago stood five deep and stacked seventeen high offstage left primed and prepared and perfectly poised take to the spotlights take to the floodlights switch switch […]