Month / September 2018

by whyididntwritetoday

This is the problem with werewolves…

Werewolves are scary.

If you had one after you, you’d certainly be worried.

They’re big, strong, fast and have really sharp teeth.

They also have the ability to hide in plain sight as they can shift from human form to werewolf form in a matter of seconds.

To make things even worse, in some werewolf tales the werewolf doesn’t even realise they’re a werewolf.

They just wake up naked in a bush and think they’ve had too many beers the night before, when really they’ve been on a path of a destruction…
(I’m sure no one can relate to that).

Yet, no matter how deadly a foe they may be, there’s a way to kill them.

All you need is a gun and a silver bullet.

It’s the same with vampires, they’re nearly indestructible… until you swing a stake or a clove of garlic at them.

Problem solved.

But, when it comes to our problems in daily life, there’s not always a quick fix like a stake or a silver bullet.

Yet that’s all we look for…

A quick way to get rich…

A quick way to get a six pack…

A quick way to gain a qualification…

Sadly these quick fixes (when they work) are usually temporary solutions…

So, I guess it’s time for us to look past the quick fixes for real, life-time fixes to some of our problems.

Often there are four or five ways to solve something, but if you lose yourself in looking for that one ‘silver bullet’ you’re likely to miss them.

P.S. for the record my favourite werewolf film is called ‘The Howling‘ – an eighties classic, enjoy!

– Ashley Brown

by whyididntwritetoday

Dripping Taps

I woke up.

For a few seconds there was silence as the world slowly came into focus. And then came the familiar sound of cars outside – an almost relaxing drone that gave me the security that the world was still turning.

Then another noise.

A tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap.

A dripping tap, coming somewhere in the apartment.

I pulled the covers up and over my face. I didn’t have to be up for another 30 minutes. Perhaps I could drown it out.

But, sadly, once you’re aware of something so annoying it just gets worse. You start to predict it before it sounds again, anxiety curling you up as you wait for that next… TAP.

So I hauled myself out of bed, made myself somewhat decent, and padded down the hallway to the kitchen.

I turned both taps on and off. But the drip continued.

So for the next ten minutes I fought and fought with the cold tap. But the drip continued.

I don’t know why, but I’d just assumed that it was the cold tap.

And I became blinkered.

But, of course, as it turned out… the problem was with the hot tap.

Yet I’d become so convinced that the cold tap was the issue that my brain had seized up, refusing to believe anything else.

I think it’s important not to be like that when solving a problem.

You can get so focused on one particular solution that you miss the obvious.

by Ashley Brown