OLD Dress, circa 1951. Wedding, 2020. Tulle and fitted bodice. Tea length. Punk black boots, laced up, pointed hat with farcical veil. Marriage in the…
Olive planted her words hoping they would sprout green shoots skyward, drive gnarly roots deep within the brown-hued earth. She waited with child-like anxiousness to…
The beach smells of cotton candy; hot spun sugar wrapped cool on paper cones. We sprawl toast on towels, bodies slathered sticky. Zinc oxide ghosts…
It was just a door. Paint curling through the dust from the people-filled street. Minds on their own business. A ragged curtain covered the small…
I ran away a lot. Unlike Dad, I never got far. Once I hid in a field till a thunderclap rattled me home. Mom was…
We looked towards the horizon through sea-sprayed eyes and matted fringes. You were my sharp-eyed figurehead. Your sand-gritted legs curled round the sturdy neck; small…
The quick brown fox is tired of fame. What’s wrong with repeating letters? He drags his lazy dog into Llanfairpwll’s hall of mirrors to tease…
There was something about you – I think it was your eyes – that spoke to my soul in electric lines. We sat in the…
Benjie squirmed contentedly on the rug as I tickled his tummy. ‘Don’t cry, Jacob,’ said Ada. ‘How can you stay calm? He’ll be dead tomorrow.’…
I don’t have a gun, but I have a dozen eggs, tidy in their two-rowed carton, and I have a jar of jam. I have…