London Transport Apologises No. 3

Mar 082013

Customers on Platform 2 should stand well away from the platform edge as the approaching train has had a really bad day.

[This piece originally appeared in Smoke 7.]

Tagged with: London Transport Apologises, Trains, Transport

Looking back through the clouds…

The Break

by Natasha Green
I saw Maggie slip a compact out of her bag and smooth her hair in the mirror, tucking a lock of it behind one ear. She smiled and waved at me. Gone was the curly-haired maelstrom, with eyes circled in crumbling kohl and hands tipped with chipped silver nail polish; the Maggie of early-morning telephone calls full of grotesque imitations of spurned lovers abandoned in the night, calls that left me laughing and gasping for air on the other end of the line. [read more...]

London’s Campest Statues Nos. 9A and 9B

by Matt Haynes
Yes, his toga may be worn rather rather too casually off the shoulder, and reveal a quite unnecessary amount of nipple for daytime discourse in the forum, but – that’s Romans for you! That's what they were like! Ah, indeed they were, my friend, but the thing is, he’s NOT a Roman. He’s William Huskisson MP, 1770-1830, the unfortunate chap who, having already cheated death once – when a horse fell on him during his honeymoon – then found fame as the world’s first railway fatality, after being hit by Stephenson’s Rocket just outside Newton-le-Willows. [read more...]