Summer’s Promise Gone
What can I say? What can I write? Summer’s promise lost its way alone now, in the dark night. Midsummer’s over, too. I know you’re…
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Love in Limbo: Part 1
Mary has been trapped in this dark moonlit cemetery for an undetermined amount of time. She had been free of this place once, living among…
The Condom and the Dead Rabbit
a void is a void (is a void a void?) how about avoid? (haha) but seriously, though, is before a beginning the same as after…
Tattoo Daughter
It astonished me when I realised there were people who designed urns for babies. Cat-eared, pink, baby blue, shaped like a teddy bear or a…
Tumbling
Miss listened to the voicemail. Another father died. He lived to ninety four. Pretty good except for the last weeks. She called back to her…
Funeral in the Country
Miss drives to her friend’s father’s funeral. It’s familar territory, rolling hills, blue skies with puffy white clouds today. She’ll be on the edge of…
The -1st Hour of a Condemned Man
That morning, he cannot bring himself to eat. The guard puts out butter and apricot jam, and he feels the scents and his body does…
Are You There?
‘Hey, where did you go?’ Sam banged his phone on the counter. He listened and stared at the Android. ‘Hello, are you there?’ He looked…
Deaf Scream
Let me call for help,And never be heard,Roaring in my bed,Next to a sleeping spouse. I wish to enjoy the sound,Of silence tearing my throat,Rasping…
Contamination
A story of the repair workers When the nice grey-haired physician – she looked like a secondary-school counsellor – finished, Jannike’s gaze slid out the…