"Love Has Rules" by Francine Witte
Love Has Rules And you can’t change ‘em. I told this to Harley again and again. Been this way forever, I’d say. He’d ignore me, but still...
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Mar 6, 20227 min read
"Pelvis", " Tupelo", and "The Unexploded Bomb" by Kieran Wyatt
Pelvis I’m wiping Mrs. Carleton’s backside when she tells me she has a secret. ‘You won’t believe it,’ she says. I help her to stand,...
Mar 6, 20223 min read
"Big Top" by Cath Barton
It was the brightness of it I saw first, red and yellow radiating stripes, forming and dissolving in front of my eyes as we galloped...
Mar 6, 20222 min read
"The Woman Who Needed to Run" by Emma McEvoy
She pulls on her running shoes and slips unnoticed out the back door, down the rain-slicked path, and through the garden gate where she...
Feb 20, 20222 min read
"After Dinner She Came Up" by Julia Ruth Smith
She was not what I’d been expecting; not less but somehow not quite enough. She was a stunner, slim waist, cross-legged now on the rug; a...
Feb 20, 20221 min read
"When She Set the Alarm for Two" by Jenny Wong
Luna and John sat side by side, a pair of clocks unwound into stillness. Their faces stared forward. Backs leaned up against a cracked...
Feb 6, 20224 min read
"Possession" by Karen Lethlean
His first big mistake was telling me. You gotta love over-sharing in the office. Left himself wide open, Gaz did. Never let a chance go...
Feb 6, 20222 min read
"The Christmas Concert, Front Row" by Rachel Canwell
I am in the church hall when those first notes begin. Like crystallised raindrops landing in a pail. Your song. Familiar, unexpected,...
Feb 6, 20223 min read
"Monologue Intérieur" by Chakrika
I feel like Pluto. That is to say I feel for it. Amidst days that have been like a sore, numb limb, I have only experienced a sensation...
Feb 6, 20224 min read
"Shallow waters" by B F Jones
They get drenched between the cab and the front door. Quick Daddy! The twins laugh-scream, wetter by the second as he fumbles for his...
Jan 2, 20221 min read
"Never wake your sleeping hero" by Kik Lodge
Never wake your sleeping hero because he’s probably dream-drooling over the hottie he’s with in Gala, coconut oiling her bum cheeks, and...
Jan 2, 20223 min read
"The Camel" by Margo Griffin
Forever relegated to the role of the elder and more responsible child, I delivered almost every sibling disaster headline to my mother....
Jan 2, 20222 min read
"Men Who Cross the Border" by Francois Bereaud
It happens on a Thursday. The morning offers the usual odors: armpits, assholes, instant coffee, and cheap cigarettes dominate, but,...
Dec 19, 20211 min read
"The Rest is Lost" by Julia Ruth Smith
It was a toffee door, open for everyone, closed after midnight. There was family and dogs on the staircase; coffee-drop lozenges going up...
Dec 19, 20212 min read
"Created" by Sky Sprayberry
The reports of my creation were greatly exaggerated. Everyone believed that Prometheus carefully crafted me from clay, that Athena...
Dec 19, 20212 min read
"Inked Lines" by Rachel Canwell
She pushes her hip against his. Slender teenage hips, denim-clad and barely there. She can feel a burn beneath the fabric, chafing on her...
Dec 19, 20212 min read
"Games night" by Bonnie Meekums
I laid it out very carefully this time. I didn’t want to lose any pieces, just in case everyone turned up. Last time, there was only me...
Dec 19, 20211 min read
"Obsessionals" by Epi Rogan
At first, He was charming and kind. Then things started to happen, That made me think, He’s not right in the head. He was becoming...
Nov 28, 20214 min read
"Snapshot" by Kellie Scott-Reed
“God makes you hopeful at 19, at 20, so you have the fire to go out and reproduce; the foolishness to believe the world is a place worth...
Nov 28, 20216 min read
"Vessel" by Tiffany M Storrs
She always carried her basket the way they carried water in the old days, perched high on her shoulder like a vessel. He vaguely...
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