A noise wakes me. I try to grasp the fading echoes in my dark bedroom. Maybe a car […]
FAMILY
My mother has peeled me an orange. Her eyesight is not good, so there is a thick layer […]
We would tumble into the back of Dad’s black Cadillac like tiny acrobats, my sister sucking her withering […]
Request Blessed. Ida’s grouchy old washing machine sticks half-way through a cycle. Cursing, Ida manoeuvres to her knees […]
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 […]
A toddler at Gate 23 awakens the life I almost chose and forces me to reckon with the […]
‘Are you sure she’s dead?’ Josephine’s voice is unsteady. Marion, too, has turned pale and stares with horror at their sister […]
As non-difficult things go, it is a difficult thing to have an organised father. It is a great […]
Dad was a mortuary technician. He died fifteen years ago, and wanted his ashes scattered in France. Nobody […]
I know that, for many in my demographic, the first decade or so of our lives was spent […]
You’re there to make others happy I’ve become adept at avoiding my ruff when bending to kiss my […]
She enters. The morning glow filters from the high-set windows and descends like a halo upon her sustainably-dyed […]
Calliope Barcarolle wanted a piano in the worst way. She begged and begged her parents to get her […]