He wasn’t her preferred genre but she liked to try all types. The preview promised plenty: action-packed romance in California-esque sunshine. Hedonistic Hollywood-style nights. She…
We started at her shins. Below us, limestone toes sank joyfully into the sea-marsh at Murrisk. I was confident, a bright pilgrim stepping beside you…
In the oranged air a widow rubs the furrowed band on her ash-black skin where once she wore her wedding ring. She’d pawned it last…
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…
They lived off this headline for years. Never married. Gave talks in primary schools. Children asked the same questions. What bit of the house did…
I regret to inform you that my heart has been accepted elsewhere; I must therefore withdraw my submission. I truly admire your publication. I won’t…
Let me lay my head down for a moment, just a second’s rest. The sunlight on my face is so heavy, my hot thoughts lead.…
Sometimes I come for the ghosts of arguments. The stone-chip in a windscreen, The tell-tale tyre track rubber. Counterfeit diamonds of brake light glass. Sideswiped…
Spring sunlight lands on them precisely, like the light and shade of those Impressionist paintings you loved. And I came to love them. Here the…