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Showing posts with label 2024 Fire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2024 Fire. Show all posts
Tuesday, 18 June 2024

'Only Children' by Rachel Burrows

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“They belonged to your father.” Delusion… or dementia now? I was unborn when he joined up — five when we met. But there had been twins in th...

'My Love is Lost on the High Wind' by Jac Morris

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Dandelion seeds scatter. My love makes a wish. Too late I kiss her silent - by summer she’s gone on the high wind, giddy for adventure. In a...

'Playing Hooky' by Melissa Flores Anderson

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Charles offers to pay even though I invited him out for a drink this afternoon to celebrate his promotion. We waited weeks to do this, too b...

'The Yard Sale' by Angela James

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Everything must go. Neighbours pick through our memories. Bargaining too because what we had was not actually priceless. I send the items ou...

'The Way Around Him' by Melissa Flores Anderson

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Mute the notifications on your phone Actually, mute him so you don’t have to see what he’s liking or not liking (he’s not liking you anymore...

'We All Want Things We Cannot Have' by Laura Cooney

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Wanted: Baby bootees and overripe plums, not necessarily in that order. Will Pay.

'Don't Trust Your Sat Nav. Better ask Google!' by Val Harris

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Has it got a postcode? A bit too early for that? Let’s just put in The Pyramids. Go. Proceed to route guidance. Take the first star on the r...

'Still Beautiful Even When It's Over' by Val Harris

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Summer lies, smouldering in October’s hearth. We rake it in, piling the worst of it, the regrets, losses onto the pyre. Set to flames the pa...

'Make Your Move' by Allison Renner

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Open the App Store and download Luv+. Type in the coupon code your mother gave you for Valentine’s day. Enter the dating pool and swipe righ...

'Paralysis' by Jennifer Mungham

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“That tickles!” Molly shrieked happily. Snatching back her hand with pouting lips. She had shrieked louder when the lorry plowed into her si...

'3 Sons' by Scott MacLeod

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“Happy Father’s Day, Dad.” “Thanks son, same to you. Have you heard from your boy?" “Not yet.”  “I bet you hear from him by the end of ...
Monday, 17 June 2024

'Heat Island' by Melissa Flores Anderson

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The backyard thermometer creeps up past a hundred. The weather app said it would be 95 today, but it’s always 10 to 15 degrees off. Not a ma...

'Social prescribing from my sister (via text)' by Rachel Canwell

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Sis, just take the usual cure – new shoes, white silence and midnight ice-cream. 

'All the Things That Didn’t Happen on the Day of Our First Date' by Debbi Voisey

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You didn’t wear the suit I imagined. I’d spotted you buying it a few days ago, and I remember thinking: ”I bet that’s for our date.” You did...

'Amateur Gardening' by Laura Cooney

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Vanessa didn't let people walk over her. The mud and blood circling the drain bore witness. “No more trouble from Linda,” she confidentl...

'At last, he’ll get it' by Slawka G. Scarso

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Packed suitcases on the landing. The door lock shining new. Music blasting inside.

'We will always have to eat things with hearts' by Christina Tudor

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The sun should have set already but at midnight it hung in a blood-red sky like a harvest moon. All down the East Coast, people emerged from...

'Artificial Competence' by JP Richards

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 My lecture hall disgorged philosophy students. They were fleeing for the familiar comforts of beer and weed. It was Friday syndrome, after ...

‘What’s In A Word?’ by Scaramanga Silk

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"It is what it is." Sue could sense the familiar outcome to this week’s Pub Quiz.  “Cliff's lot haven’t lost in months! Gits.”...

The Feeling You Get When The Person In Front Beats You To It by Jane Claire Jackson

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 Queuing. See three last kebabs sold. What now? Butcher disappears. Fetches more. Relief!
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