The Bishop
Mr Bishop’s face was the colour of raw meat and his hair, which he tried to comb across his head, resembled the fluff of newborn chickens. Not a prepossessing face. But he was tall. And broad. He was...
View ArticleTo Name Those Lost — Extract
THE LETTER Her head hit the floorboards, bounced, and a fog of ash billowed, thrown so by the motion of her spade. She was slight of figure, slim with a quiet softly coloured face. She crashed and the...
View ArticleWhen There’s Nowhere Else to Run – Extract
The Greatest Showbag on Earth Josh starts nagging us to walk faster the second we get through the turnstiles. He doesn’t know what it means to work on your feet five days a week, just to blow half a...
View ArticleStewed Fruit
If I had to put my finger on it, on the moment when things started to come undone for Liz and me, I think it would be the summer we went camping for our fifteen-year anniversary at Mooney Beach. It...
View ArticleStewed Fruit (v2)
This is how the day starts. How he will remember it after everything that happens that day and the days and weeks after: he is at the kitchen bench with a cup of coffee. She is at the stove stewing...
View ArticleThe Hurt Each Other Club
The yard is small and slopes downhill from the house. Buffalo grass on either side of a concrete path, a grey strip from the back door to a bunker, next to a mandarin tree, which is heavy with fruit...
View ArticleIce to Earth
66 degrees south I stand alone on the trawl deck of the ship. In the soft grey light, I watch the station recede into the distance. The red box where we slept, where we ate – where we looked out of the...
View ArticleFailed Screenplays
Failed Screenplay – Rom Com INT. BEDROOM. DAY A WOMAN sits at her desk staring at a blank document. WOMAN I cannot write the screenplay (looks up and locks eyes with her self in the mirror) and I’ll...
View ArticleThe Real Wild
An excerpt from Our Magic Hour Before Emy’s going-away party Audrey and Nick got drunk at home, then they were running late and Nick still hadn’t written a message in the card, and while he was bent...
View ArticleShow Day
Rumba’s father and mother were avid gardeners; his mother grew the most amazing carnations, snapdragons, roses and especially camellias, she was also a very good cook and cakes were her specialty....
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