Truism

The coiled spring lay in the corner of the room like a coiled spring.

Carbon

The girl was swimming in the lake one morning when the fire fighting plane scooped up water. The girl was dropped on the forest fire raging a few kilometres from the lake.

She didn't help.

Proof of Design

The very best argument for the existence of God I ever heard was told to me by a young baptist minister. (The sad insane look religious people have was only just beginning to come into his eyes.)

He said there had to be a God, just look at a beautiful woman's body.

Like I said it was the very best argument for the existence of God I had ever heard.

I'm still not a believer though: you see I think a beautiful woman's body is a sort of stylised question mark, so I'm agnostic.

The Kiss

Her kiss reminded me of the noise my gas fire used to make when I was at college. Back in my student days the winters were very cold.
I used to kiss girls to keep warm.

The Playground

Next to the thin line was a slippery slope and a grey area.

The Future

Sat in the bath I saw my entire body stretched out before me.

Saturday

A woman went slightly mad as people sometimes do. She was a nurse in a maternity ward and the day she went slightly mad she shouted at every baby as soon as it was born 'Why don't you go back where you came from?'