A noise wakes me. I try to grasp the fading echoes in my dark bedroom. Maybe a car […]
Category Archive: Short Stories
Having recently overheard my neighbor’s offspring chuckling at the story of a peanut sitting on the railroad track, […]
My mother has peeled me an orange. Her eyesight is not good, so there is a thick layer […]
What does a homeowner look like? I was thinking about this while on the tube in London. I […]
Request Blessed. Ida’s grouchy old washing machine sticks half-way through a cycle. Cursing, Ida manoeuvres to her knees […]
Jenna lay back on the couch and rolled her shoulders, knowing that soon, the room would get big […]
Who knew it would be so easy? English and the abecedario share 26 letters. Most sentences are built […]
I watch as they all file in. The music playing is Bat out of Hell. Funny. That’s one […]
‘When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!’ Bloody patronising twaddle. Some people have this crap set out on […]
A toddler at Gate 23 awakens the life I almost chose and forces me to reckon with the […]
Yesterday the trip had seemed a delightful idea. She had been enthusing to Jacques and his mother about […]
In a town where gossip travels faster than Wi-Fi, one stay-at-home mom turns code into karma. The kitchen […]
According to local historian, Gwen Farndale, in 1069, the inhabitants of Clixendale village were wiped out during the […]
‘Are you sure she’s dead?’ Josephine’s voice is unsteady. Marion, too, has turned pale and stares with horror at their sister […]