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…
The queue is out the door. Dorothy waits in a focused, vengeful way for her double order of battered cod, mushy peas, and chips. Back…