Altitude. Frantic rooftop chases culminate in close-ups, a trailing heel just making the near-impossible leap to safety. Blood. Incarnadine. Always dramatic. Convoys of cars filmed…
It passes the time, pondering their salvation and moulding everything by it. I bear witness every night: ripples rousing the bay, then the swollen crop…
Tell us a story of the crowds – rammed and jammed and stood still… H pulls his hand back from the overhead rail in the…
There is an emptying. Moon by moon they crack from hatches, mutate into puckered tentacles of faces, upturned, awaiting the fever-clutch of mother country’s helicoptered…
Leaves were compressed against the curb in small mounds, like discarded wet shoes in every shade of leather, though it wasn’t raining now. Sasha pulled…
Childhood afternoons we lay on the hillside, staring up at the shifting white cottonpuff clouds of summer, pretending our eyes held magic and we were…
We were greedy in that city; we were voracious. We wanted so many stars – more than the lofty heavens could provide – so we…
Katrina’s dad borrowed a bowler hat for her frae his pal. But ma dad doesnae ken people like that. Mum said no’ to worry and…
For fifteen married years, she berated him with logic and reason in a Holy Roman Catholic vocabulary about the afterlife and divine trinity. When he…
Life better now. Easier. No adult. Only children and animal. Why? Why anything? Why sun fall down? Why ant crawl onto pangolin tongue? If other…