CARAVAN
I’d walked round that part of Wyckham Woods loads of times. At that time of year I often saw goldfinches with their clown-like red faces…
Author: Andrew Larter
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SIXTY A DAY MAN
“Put ’em on t’ side,” Grandad croaked. He must have heard the kitchen door click open and shut. He’d sent me to Mrs Byrne’s on…
RATTLE AND SIGH
Talbot wore a blue suit but the baggy arse of the trousers had a greasy sheen like our frying pan. At the half way point…
WHAT RIGHT DO YOU HAVE TO TALK TO ME ABOUT THE WORD OF GOD?
What do you know about it. Have you been through the torment, the trials, the tribulations that I have? I’ve lost everything only to hear…
HE HAD NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT
Andy jogged towards the sound of an engine. Surely there’d be someone who could show him a way out of these woods. He scratched himself…
RUBBERNECKING
A fluorescent cop lifts a gore-tex arm. “Some kind of incident in front,” he says. They’re on the A4361 by those right angle bends near…
IT’S NO GOOD CRYING
And I walk in the to find Mum stroking Yvonne’s head. ‘There there there,’ Mum says. ‘It doesn’t matter, love. Don’t cry.’ They are wrapped…
HE HAS A FLASH OF ANGER BUT THINKS BETTER OF IT
I was walking on T —— St yesterday and there’s these two kids about 9 or 10 years old. They had some plastic cups on…
FLESH AND BLOOD
1 STYPTIC PENCIL When Dad cut himself shaving he couldn’t believe it. He’d positioned his shaving mirror carefully and put a new Gillette blade in…
LEAVE EVERYTHING WHERE IT IS (After Lu Hsun)
Let me tell you about something that happened while I was in N____ton some while ago on business. N____ton is a bit of a dump…