Stories and Perversities

Tales by Flora Jardine:

"Gardens of History", Shifting Landscapes (Wandering Words anthology no. 2), 2021

"Masquerade" and "Variant Company", Writers and Readers Magazine, March, and July, 2021

 "I Will All My Worldly Goods to Robot", Funny Pearls, 2021

"Haunted House", Disquiet Arts, Jan. 2021

"Windows on the World", Bandit Fiction, 2020

"The Inkwell of Loneliness", Mask and Spectacle, Sept. 2020

"Support Payments", 
http://www.short-humour.org.uk/10writersshowcase/supportpayments.htm 

"A Long Marriage", pifMagazine, No. 268, September 2019   https://www.pifmagazine.com/2019/09/a-long-marriage/

"Suicide Post", Island Writer, 17(1) 2019

"Tunnelling Down", Wandering Words: Anthology of West Coast Writing, 2018

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DO YOU LIKE LOCAL POLITICAL SATIRE?

PER-VERSE

Think how boring life would be

if everything was known ahead,

if living held no mystery

and all you needed to say was said

Imagine you woke to certainty

and went to bed with nothing at stake

Would nightly sleep more peaceful be

or would wanting what's hidden keep you awake?

Would you rather a floating fetus be

suspended unknowing in a safe soft womb,

knowing not dread nor comedy

nor what might happen from now until doom?

I don't want to know what you'll say next,
I'd rather muse on words and subtext
While the firelight flickers question marks,
I sit and fall silent and watch soft sparks

If all was known ahead of its time

who could bear eternity?

You gave me your word about everything

but I want delicious uncertainty

                                           -- A. Blair.