Andrew Venn

“The Pendant ” by Andrew Venn

Submitted to Contest #269

It would be my first experience of any meaningful sadness, and the atmosphere in our household would determine my somber mood, and it would be very solemn for many days! The reason would sadly be very clear to this household, because our dear and beloved, Great Aunty, would not bless this earth again, and this unfortunate loss,, for me(‘a young man in his teenage years’) would, unusually see me cry like a baby! She was a loving and very caring soul, who applied those assets in her many long years of nursing, and her devotion to this job ...

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“Gone but not Forgotten!” by Andrew Venn

Submitted to Contest #267

It was an unusually dark Winters evening, which was devoid of any comforting light from either the, ‘usually bright’, moon or any twinkling stars, and there was also a chilling silence around this small town, ‘as if’, other people knew something that I didn’t! “It could have had something to do with the weather”? This little town, in where I lived, was very quiet for a Friday evening and I didn’t see anyone else roaming around the streets, like they’re usually seen scuttling from one pub to another one(‘for a relatively small town i...

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“‘All play and no work NOW”!” by Andrew Venn

Submitted to Contest #252

The morning began like any other Winter’s morning and I wasn’t ‘overly keen’ to get out of my cosy and comfortably warm bed but, at least, it was sunny and bright outside, with the frost glistening on the lawn ‘as though’ it had been lightly covered with glistening diamond icing; The alarm clock awoke me from my very deep sleep and I arose with about as much enthusiasm as a prisoner destined for the guillotine! The alarm was still on ‘snooze’ and would add to my ‘already stressed life’, because I was now in the bath...

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“Small addition for a big subject!” by Andrew Venn

Submitted to Contest #251

It was my second day at this new school, that had the added stress of requiring the school bus to transport the pupil's, in my area, to the main bus depot near our secondary school, where I had just completed my ‘early years’ at my villages Primary School, and I didn’t know one single person here and nor did anybody’s face look familiar! I stood alone in a playground, which was probably unfamiliar with the first four letters of this word and it was really a concrete meeting area for the pupils that just wanted to gossip and it ha...

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“Finding ‘yourself’!” by Andrew Venn

Submitted to Contest #247

’One minute I was okay’, but five minutes later I would be trying to stay alive!A very sudden and unexpected brain haemorrhage very nearly ended my ‘relatively young’ life! After surviving, and completing 10 1/2 months in hospital, I required many therapies to try to restore ‘some normality’! This was a challenge and I, instead of ‘looking at it’ negatively, decided to attempt a reasonable recovery with humour, instead of ‘doom and gloom’! I was 24 years of age when I suffered this brain haemorrhage, caused by high blood pressure that rupt...

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““Up…… ‘then down”!” by Andrew Venn

‘UP……….then DOWN’ “Get out of the way, I’m going to throw it”! I knew from whom this voice came, despite the words sounding unusually strained and ‘slightly distorted’ with both desperation and urgency, but I still had to quickly turn and look to clarify that my thoughts were correct, and they were from my elder brother and the object, that he was unconvincingly holding high above his head, was a large and obviously heavy large rock and he was, apparently, going to ‘throw it in the stream’! The big rock previously lay discarded, amongs...

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“A vocal frustration. ” by Andrew Venn

Submitted to Contest #238

“I can’t say it”……….. “no, I really can’t say the word ‘it’, nor any other words”! A stroke ‘struck me down’, very unexpectedly and very inconveniently at the young age of 24 years, and on a day that was supposed to end with big celebrations, because it was New Year’s Eve! So, instead of my Fiancée and I celebrating being in our very first home together, I started New Year’s Eve off in a collapsed semi-conscious heap on the bathroom floor, and to be precise the unfortunate collapse was on the ‘pedestal mat’- ‘the mat around the toilet pan’! ...

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“‘IN SICKNESS AND IN “IN EXISTENT ILL” HEALTH’!” by Andrew Venn

Submitted to Contest #237

‘IN SICKNESS AND IN “an existent” ILL HEALTH’!Something is in the air and it’s got an annoying sound,It’s from those helium balloons that are blowing ‘all around’,There are 4 shiny letters and ‘with an E, a V, an L and an O,and they’re flapping in the wind with their annoying glow; I know I’ll hear this noise all day and it’ll ‘drive me mad’- “Please somebody buy those ‘bloody things’ to make me really glad”!But nobody came near, the wind grew stronger, ‘as if’, there was an evil curse, because those balloons were ‘flapping’ f...

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“Going back for ‘a’ good!” by Andrew Venn

Submitted to Contest #236

              Going back for ‘a’ good!          There was a purpose for all of the research and the dedication required towards the construction of a mechanical machine and transportation unit, that would be capable to reverse time and decrease the age of a living person seated within this structure, and this personal purpose was to avoid an incident that would dramatically and drastically affect both my younger years and a ne...

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“That’s Life” by Andrew Venn

Submitted to Contest #234

                    ‘That’s Life’!           ‘One minute’ life and everything and everyone that I knew in this World seemed alright and I briefly and naively thought that I could relax enough to say “at last, I think I’ve got ‘this life’ ‘figured out’ and I’ll continue with what I am doing because this formula seems to be the right one!         My life ...

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“The man with no voice!” by Andrew Venn

“Speak now” said the throat specialist as he opened my mouth wide and examined the back of my throat with his cold and slim torch as though he was a mechanic examining an engine! ’I would speak now’ I thought ‘but I’ve got this great-big hand in my mouth that’s presently attached to a cold and slim torch’! I said a few words(“or at least I thought that I did”) but the throat specialist just shook his head and for me that was both personally devastating and demoralising because I had failed ‘yet again’ to allow the luxury of having food, glor...

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“I stay BUT you go!” by Andrew Venn

Submitted to Contest #143

 “Where am I and what’s been going on, I appear to be in a hospital ward that just seems ‘so wrong”! “I’m in here with ‘old aged pensioners’ but I’m only ‘twenty four’, I’m easily the youngest in here but I don’t know what it’s for”? “I was very dumbfounded by the situation and I really had to think, ‘I remembered collapsing whilst I stood at the bathroom sink”! “That’s right’, there was a fall and soon an ambulance appeared and then I was in hospital and rapi...

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