Recipe for Wrath
1.
the litter and the concrete and the
greed.
2.
bones sweat.
3.
insecurities and shame.
4.
taints everything you taste.
5.
people bigger than you.
6.
Remember every footprint.
7.
store them with points 1-6.
8.
9.
hot and too bright. Lose your temper before getting out of bed.
10.
that’s wrong: corruption, waste, hate.
11.
synapse in your brain exploding screams in your ears and turns your jaw to stone.
12.
13.
contracted muscles in your brow until you find the pit within you.
14.
15.
stalactites dripping, growing.
16.
Capture its echo.
17.
the floor, smoothing out the hesitations.
18.
sulphide to clear your head.
19.
water.
20.
Sam Russell is a fragmented writer, dividing his time between short fiction, photography and his first novel. Whichever arena he walks into, he does so alone, using themes of isolation and difference to make the darkness we all face beautiful and fascinating. He holds an MA with Distinction in Creative Writing from the University of Kent at Canterbury and has recently been published in this year's National Flash Fiction Day Anthology "Scraps".