The Trying Twenties!

Well, that's how somebody once referred to them and boy were they on the nail!

I've just started reading a great book called 'It's a Wonderful Lie: 26 Truths About Life in Your Twenties' edited by Emily Franklin. In the foreword, by Alexandra Robbins, it says that many people now in their thirties, have confronted their 'identity demons' in their twenties, thus avoiding the traditional mid-life crisis in the forties or fifties.

Now I know that all that angst wasn't for nothing...hurrah!

Ten

Entitled 'Ten', the following is part of the 'Short Words' series by Nic Askew.

Nic commented "This week I came to remember, yet again, that I have to write as it comes. An idea stored, then worked on later seems to become too clever. And quite possibly burdensome to read."


In a dream more real than his daytime, a grown man meets himself.

Himself at just ten. With the light in his eyes. And the world in his heart.

He sets out to explain to his young self why he's taken the road to someone else's somewhere.

But he can't.

And in the deafening silence he shakes uncontrollably. As the years of an unconsidered life spill over.

And in that silence everything changes. Forever.

Perhaps the ten year old had been his very soul in disguise.

Come to shake him from the prison of his daytime.