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...

My Grandfather left me three things in his will; a John Wayne-signed movie poster from Rio Bravo, an assortment of low denomination coins...

He kisses me deeply, his cardamom-flavored saliva mingling with mine. Cardamom disgusts me; I like ginger tea. Yet he refuses to add...

She’s the only thing left in the freezer, a chicken, hard as a rock. He calls her Chick-la as an endearment. His ex disappeared one fine...

I didn’t notice the bullet holes right away. They had hit the faux wood paneling in what the lawyer called his conference room, just...

Every day, in the window of the house with the red door, there are flowers. Flowers sitting in pride of place. Flowers spilling their...

1. “Good girl,” I say to the little dog when she pees beneath the palm tree outside my apartment building. That’s what the training video...

Wyfy had the metal man in their mind again while tilling in the field, near daybreak, most everyone else asleep aside from Wyfy’s partner...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Luna and John sat side by side, a pair of clocks unwound into stillness. Their faces stared forward. Backs leaned up against a cracked...

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...