The snow came like a wave of old women, all white hair and whiskers, peck, peck, poking at the cabin’s window glass. You shivered. My…
But lately they only make you groan. So, I pop them on a delicate cycle, before drying them in the sun. On the clothesline, the…
In some shining slice of time, not hers, not mine, we will be friends. I’ll enter slowly through the door-less frame at Roquebrune, and we…
INT: OVAL OFFICE – DAY The President sits at the desk. The President looks at her hands. People rush in and out, speaking fast, leaving…
Mum took a summer job on a ferry, serving plates piled with slices of black pudding and greasy triangles of fried tattie scones, to tourists…
Make an appointment with the GP, who examines your scalp and says, Hmm, only a little. At your age, a degree of hair thinning’s to…
tell me my shoes need resoling/ (who doesn’t?). Some crunch in a quiet kind of way/ but others/ spit fierce into traffic or hedgerow/ tiddley-winked.…