In the mornings, they step on the rotten branches of her used-to-be vegetable garden and sneak their beaks into the holes within them;...

Snip. Onomatopoeia. Except, when you are an amateur attempting to cut hair for the first time, it sounds more like: Sss-nn-iii-p. No,...

The funeral home I worked at began as an anomaly. Before Sweet Services popped up at the corner of the town’s only intersection, funeral...

“Don’t be shy,” she says. “I’ve got a surprise for you!” You are six, and Medzmama is sitting on that big woven carpet with the cranes...

When I am a man, I will wear tuxedos to school, and a top hat, and say “Good day” to every person that I meet, even if I don’t know what...

‘Fifty!’ she shouts into the phone. ‘It’s like my life’s over. It’s going to be illness, declining powers, and slipping away. Every day...

I wanted to see an alien so I drove out to Roswell, but they didn’t realize I was looking for them until after I left town. It was three...

They were sitting on the back deck in the dying light, Mac drinking Scotch, Beth reading the paper. They’d been there for hours,...

Dance shoes awaken to jolts and pounding, shaken alive on the factory floor. In our case, we were also enveloped in a strange mist that...

There were worms in Trajuni’s eyes, but she ignored them for a few weeks because she had too much laundry busying her arms. She had too...

The sun beat down on my dangling corpse. With visitors long since gone, I’m left in isolation, suffocating on a cross. Don’t call me a...

I can sense the sceptics. Those who are only after a show, something to tell their friends, a story for their blog post: Ten Most Common...

An aide told the press that his boss had rejected the idea of having His image added to Mount Rushmore because South Dakota was “a...

Greg Burton kicked an empty beer can up and down a freezing subway platform. His sister Carol complained about the noise he was making,...

When I spot Nonna’s Fiat 127 across the ice-cream parlour, my heart skips a few beats. I tug at my white denim miniskirt, desperate to...

CW: references to violence Cheap Beer, Madden and Hold ‘em How would I have known there was so much more, just a kid with a 30 rack of...

You’ve been here before. The sea nips at your toes, the sand cool after so much walking that your shoes have almost shredded away and...

We arrive at 9AM, and it’s already a sticky, sweltering summer morning. The cars are lining up as visitors come early to pick their...

Gerty He had a binder clip holding his hat together. It was one of the first things people noticed when they met him, though most were...

Clifton Hill is awake and pulsing, moving like a living, breathing thing. A voice radiates from a loudspeaker inviting tourists into the...