School Bus
An excellent short story about the stresses a developing, young child experiences on their first bus ride to high school.
Creative
From Persephone
'He made me wings / With the bones / Of a hell-hound'
The Dragon
"Finding debt, doubt; my overtaxed / Lover paid at the wrong time."
Reviewing the BBC’s ‘Safe Harbour’, a highly topical and morally riveting drama!
A highly topical and morally riveting drama depicting the collision between Australian friends holidaying on a sailing yacht and a teeming migrant boat with a dead engine in international waters.…
Birdsong
"Can you hear the birdsong up above?"
Chicken
It was too quiet. I didn’t like it. As if a stopper had been pulled out on the whole world, and like a beach ball it was collapsing in on…
An Ode to Existence
The regal walls of the inner courtyard seem to act as a sort of belvedere; trapping the falling snow in the open sided horseshoe for all to delight in. It…
The English Alphabet
When you were set to leave for England in the year 1940, you took it upon yourself to teach me English. We got from A for Apple to M for…
The Favour
‘You’re Peter, aren’t you?’ I nodded; his voice was harsh and discordant, and more than anything I wanted to run into my house.
Flash Fiction: The Child Who Didn’t Know Love
"Emotions must be overrated."