Archive | 12.03.2010
- No Glow
"Watch me!"
I had already pulled the crux overhang, but the climbing up here was thin and scary. My last piece, a fixed piton, was a long way below me; two body lengths at least. It had looked pretty solid when I had clipped it, but who knew really? I looked around for a place to put gear in, but there was nothing. The rock was brilliant white and smooth. I was balanced on thin edges. The rope between my legs snaked down into the abyss. There was nowhere to go but up.
"Watch me!" I called down ... more
- Nosey Parker Ch. 01
Angela spent far too much of her time watching what was going on in the cul-de-sac for her own good, at least that's what her husband Lionel always said. She couldn't help herself though, her own marriage was a sham and her life otherwise had little to interest her so she spent most of the day and a great deal of the night watching her neighbours. It had become an obsession over time without her realising; she even had sets of powerful binoculars strategically placed about her house. It was an expensive ... more