‘What on earth are you wearing?’ Penny sat at the dressing table, adjusting the enormous lilac pussycat bow. […]
Category Archive: Short Stories
On the kitchen table a seagull stood, picking at last night’s pizza. It was tugging at a string […]
‘My Charlie loves a pink wafer.’ Eileen set out a wheel of bright biscuits on the plate. ‘Even […]
The year I turned seventeen, Mom’s car died and our rental house developed wall-cracks in which ants lived […]
All I wanted was a sandwich. I asked Ma to make one and now, by some twisted mom-magic, […]
… the Centipede on Your Ceiling Because Your Husband is Laughing Too Hard to Help – And Why […]
‘Now, we come into the mind space,’ the meditation teacher says in a breathy voice, no doubt hoping […]
From the safety of her doorstep, the alpha female of the Over Fifties Club is hollering to me: […]
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I see from your paperwork that you’re applying for an apartment above your favourite restaurant – utterly impractical, […]
London, April 2020 4.01 – Bedroom My heartbeat stabilises as the nightmare fades. I dreamt that there was […]
My superpower is connecting the dots. I’m a blue-sky thinker, the last recruiter said, which is another way […]
You need: 1 cottage in a village setting with a clear view of the neighbour’s front garden 2 […]
Danny and his little brother William lived in a pale yellow house two doors down and across the […]