Let's pretend for just one moment that could actually happen. You close your eyes and I'll close mine and let's dream the same dream across the Atlantic, lighting up the darkness between us. Can you see it, Stu? Can you see us up there, shining in all the black?

Annabel Pitcher

Categorized in : Dream Eye Shining

Sometimes when I wake up, I forget that she's gone and then I remember and my heart drops like it does when you miss a step or trip over a kerb.

Annabel Pitcher

missing doe heart

If envy is red and doubt is black then happiness is brown. I looked from the little brown stone to the tiny brown freckle to her huge brown eyes.

Annabel Pitcher

envy black eye

We didn't speak, just drove out of the city into the countryside on our way to absolutely nowhere, and when we found that perfect spot among the trees, we stopped and looked at each other. Swallows swooped through the red sky, back from their adventure, and we held each other underneath the ketchup clouds, willing time to stop and the world to forget us for a while.

Annabel Pitcher

sky clouds adventure

Doesn't matter what language you speak or what clothes you wear. Some things don't change. Families. Friends. Lovers. They're the same in every city in every country in every continent of the world.

Annabel Pitcher

clothes-you-wear cities country

In fact she was quite bad and according to Jas she was naughty at school, but no one seems to remember that now she is all dead and perfect.

Annabel Pitcher

naughty perfect school

I stared up at the sky and raised my middle finger, just in case God was watching. I don't like being spied on.

Annabel Pitcher

middle-finger cases sky

That's not how you're going to live, Bird Girl. Not on my account. Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly.

Annabel Pitcher

girl strong wings

Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly. by Annabel Pitcher

Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly.

Annabel Pitcher

spread strong wings