Mum will be here soon. She never used to visit, but does now. She said when I came […]
short fiction
I closed the window against the smoke and the sound of distant gunfire. As the shields slid up […]
After reading the first few paragraphs of Call me By Your Name, I was like a starved woman […]
I honestly couldn’t say whether the bird was injured or not when she found it. V often stumbled […]
That summer, all anybody could talk about was the ghost of little Ellie Clark. She was everywhere. If […]
Sunday 24th September 11p.m. Dominic, or the purveyor of lies as I now think of him, left me […]
On the morning of the funeral, Raymond rises as usual and urinates laboriously. With effort, he contracts his […]
The Crosspatch Clock ticking. Temperature below the acceptable minimum and not even the slightest sign of the heating […]
It is said that true darkness is simply the absence of light; it possesses no texture, no subtlety, […]
The brownish bakelite buttons slide in nearly an inch as I push them. Like a pair of navels […]