This study demonstrates how deictic motion verbs, i.e. motion verbs whose interpretation relies on the location relative to participants of a particular communication, are used in English fictive motions expressions. The study focuses in particular on verbs come and go. On the basis of data found in the British National Corpus, this paper demonstrates that in expressions of fictive motion both these verbs can be used flexibly and that the choice of either verb can be attributed to a specific perspective assumed subjectively by the speaker. However, the frequency of data found in the corpus also indicates that although come and go can be viewed as a minimal pair of verbs with opposite deictic meaning, they are not necessarily a straightforward two-element subsystem of English fictive motion expressions.