Benjamin Evans - Author

Okay, so Creative Writing Assignment One is back. The idea was to use your skills in err...creativity, to put together a piece from one of a few prompts: - The house opposite - Driving alone - The smells of home - A beach in winter - Things that make the heart beat faster Naturally i chose the latter, and considered the idea of a man trapped in routine and regulation, who is obsessed with time and lives by the ticking of his watch. Then he meets a woman and the pace and rhythm of his life suddenly is taken beyond his control. Here's the main piece: Running Out of Time There are fifty minutes until its nine o’clock. That means there are fifteen hours and fifty minutes left in the day. In forty-one days, fifteen hours and fifty minutes I will be thirty-five years old. After that I will probably have another forty years left to live. The clock is ticking. Tick, tick, tick, tick. The tube train is late. A platform sighs and the temperature rises. It is late on av...

Whistle, cough, yawn, sniff A-hem, ahem, ahem, ahem ahem! Nice weather, At least it’s Friday I’ve got Shepherd’s Pie for dinner Whisper, whisper Love you. Love you. Would you like a bite of this? Ring ring, ring, ring, ring ring, ring ring Please hold. Please call back later. Waa! Waa! Waa! Waaeeeeaaaa! Its different when you have kids Beep. Oi oi. Yes mate, yes mate. How was you. In'it. Yeah you? Click, click. Tap tap. Pat pat. Scratch scratch. Yawwwnn. Oh dear! Oh my God. Save the children! Big Issue? Ten for a pound. Have a nice day! Humm Humm. Doo de doo. Whistle whistle whistle whistle. Is it because we don't talk That we make so much noise? Okay okay, nothing to be taken too seriously here – I’m not taking poetry writing until next year, but I think it does beg a few questions nonetheless. Why, in a world where we have such a wealth of sounds and images to distract us, do we persist in in...