Alan has been writing and making up stories for most of his life. He’s amazed at how little has survived despite having a loft full of boxes. As a young man, his reaction to sitting his GCE Chemistry exam was to write a poem and submit that instead of wrestling with the Periodic Table. He wasn’t given his poem back. Since then, poetry and short stories have slotted in between the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Recent work has appeared in anthologies by Domestic Cherry, Fish and travel stories edited by Robert Fear.
Alan is the recently elected Chairperson of the Group. To read ‘Betting Slip’ in this month’s Cirenscene search for Alan in the online magazine.
Betting Slip
How do you know you are down on your luck if down on your luck is your natural state? Free-falling, fist raised, a rose between your teeth and, in your pocket, a crumpled betting slip for Saturday’s accumulator, what would you have given for cat’s whiskers to go with your three-and-a-half wives to land on your feet one last time? As Lion Man, you succumbed to the caress of your own passing glacier while we watched through our fingers for what seemed like millennia. No other choice but to accept the inevitable. The result would always be; anvil nil – hammer one.
Alan Passey 2026©
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