He had lived there with his mother and father until he was eight years old. Then his mother and father were gone. Continue Reading Click … Click
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I don’t feel the need to lie when she arches one eyebrow and says: “What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done?” Continue Reading and this is just one ...
Gaz has nabbed a road sign of a man digging a hole, Bilbo’s picked flowers but he won’t say why, and Matty’s filled his handbag with salt and pepper ...
Over wire-rimmed glasses, Virginia Woolf peers down at the drawing, takes in the words, breathes in an imagined Argentinian starry sky. Continue Reading Vita
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I scurried as fast as my feet could take me through the livin room, slidin on cool tiles and headed straight to my secret listenin spot cause I knew there ...
Normally, I ignored calls from numbers I didn’t recognise but twenty-two missed calls in the span of an hour was worrisome. Continue Reading Waterlogged
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A flock of swallows has just flown overhead. This is their time of night, just as dusk is beginning to deepen. Continue Reading The Flight of the ...
I’m not used to this kind of attention from men. I’ve only been a woman, noticeably so at least, for a year, after all. Continue Reading Hi
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She seems unaffected by the midges now, her light clothes flapping them away. It needles you, her comfort in surroundings that make you feel so out of place. ...
The blossom’s winged petals flapped and flailed and stuck to the little bare legs and the new blue dress and that glossy hair, she winced. Stop, she wanted to shout. ...
The sign was a few kilometres back, but I’d told myself I wouldn’t stop. That she isn’t there. Continue Reading I Made Myself a Needle
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I drop my son on the floor and he shatters. Continue Reading Candle Matters
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Is it kidnapping when it’s your own children? I hope not. Continue Reading The Littoral
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I often think about the moon. I wonder how I may sail to her. Continue Reading The Princess and the Moon
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Taken aback, she forgot to respond. Her hand hung limply in his palm, until he dislodged it. Continue Reading Hands
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I opened their cage to test their loyalty. I was a fool. But they deserve their freedom … I guess. Continue Reading Flight
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There were footsteps in the next room and Gail lay still, listening. Continue Reading House Rules
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Two weeks later Jesus winked at him again. It wasn’t sunlight playing silly buggers this time. Thunderclouds were blanketing the sky. Continue Reading Days of Winks and ...
Shhh, shhh. I’m going to tell you my story, but not too loud, not too loud. Can’t let them hear; they won’t like that. Continue Reading I’m a ...
According to family lore, when Nuri came back with the bandage on her nose, everyone was shocked. There was enough nose on her to make three new ones, said amme ...