The Capris of Middle Age
Vicky Macdonald Harris No longer the resort capris of Laura Petrie dancing past her husband forever flat on the floor; she espousing […]
Category: issue 8
Music Lesson
Anthony D’Aries Don’t tell your four-year-old son how Marvin Gaye died. Unless you want to answer questions about fathers and guns and […]
The best vintages have a distinctive character
Eleonora Balsano Fresh blood is the colour of Pinot Noir, bright red and translucent. I’ve never said this to the […]
Covenant
Hattie Jean Hayes I finally dream of the cathedral. The air is stiff for a storm. I find you at the end […]
The Deaths
Ann Gelder At first there were three deaths: two big deaths and a small death. These deaths were well-mannered. They always […]
The Ocean’s Only Word (cont’d)
Lee Potts I worked for your mother one summer digging. Setting roots tangled up in soil from some other place into holes […]
Ferris Wheel
Ashley Espinoza My dad shows me an entire photo album of my mom pregnant with me. It’s weird, my dad has never […]
However far she runs away from home
Rosie Garland My mother lives in a house full of gravestones. Every morning, she vacuums around their beds and washes their […]
Driving at Night in the Rain with the AC Broken
Tyler James Russell You tell yourself you aren’t doing anything, not really, nothing strictly wrong. This is just how things are, and […]
Traffick for Miles
Tyler James Russell If you laid them out fingertip to fingertip like rows of paper dolls the girls would cover the lower […]
Grandmother’s Kitchen
Madeleine Pelletier Grandmother’s kitchen is a gathering place. Women turn their masks inside out, cluster round cooking pots, and offer prayers to […]
cathechism with stone & ghost
Evelynn Black the artist: the first person to set out a boundary stone, or make a mark –Deleuze & Guattari, A Thousand […]
Lunch at café close to the water
Ailing Zhou She walks into a café by the lower end of the Hudson to check off a box the front is […]
Anderson Shelter
Edward Barnfield In the morning, there’s a hole where the house used to be. The kitchen, where we drank tea and talked […]
When I wished my name was Anna
Emma Lee As the others settle into the end-of-term going-through-the-motions of set exercises, I’m marked as different. The maths teacher tells me […]
Countess Herzinga’s Alchemy
Janna Miller Countess Herzinga was the first to study the transmutable properties of eggshells as applied to light and sound. Her […]
No Matter How Much Time Has Passed, Some Houses Don’t Die
Janna Miller Nazi ghost houses roam the countryside, setting up bars and brothels. Come in, come in, they say. You do not […]
Dinner Hour, Miami
Maeve Reilly We all have to eat Mr Buzzard we all have to twist sideways, eyes down, hovering to get the best […]
Homecoming
Anne Daly A turlough blooms each winter at the bottom of our road. It used to be my road, when I was […]
the herb garret
Kate Hargreaves in pelting sop-footed rain on the South Bank belly warm with jackfruit & espresso I held the rope railing & […]
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Kate Hargreaves 1. Unroll foxes, hares, and long-tailed birds from foliage in unintrusive neutrals. Mark with pencil, pattern repeat ensuring an excess […]
She Remembers it Like This
Emily Devane Always, the sun shines and the black telephone dangles from its cloister wall like a stricken beetle. Always, […]
Rock Song
Mary Ford Neal It’s a small stretch of sea, but it boils with anger. Still, it will be the colour of my […]
I took my skeleton for a walk today
K.A. Nielsen My skeleton tilted their skull up, stretched their bones wide in the cool, crisp sun. We stood in the […]
Yours,
Kate Crowcroft the letters are there, they are ink holding patterns multi-cursive hand at the door late in suit and tie round […]
Alien
Kate Crowcroft A few months before the crashyou slid chicken skin down the vegetable shoot. How you get here, girl? She ran […]
Cold Comfort
Laura Pike I lie in bed, shivering in cold sheets, waiting for the nightly crumb of her affections in an otherwise […]
