Bro 'Low blow bro,' Says the adolescent Who hides just beyond The patchy beard- That fills him with a sense of strength In a strange...

A shadow descends toward the arachnid like a derailed freightliner. The crawler shivers in waves, a parted forest. Heavy lies the anvil,...

Anxious Pancakes Petra in marmite Cantona kick to the dimples toast in the dryer hands in the air balloon in a nostril sharing platter of...

1. Preparation. Begin by slowly kneading two would-be lovers together in a glass bowl. Add a dash of beer or wine for flavouring - either...

Back home in England, the landscape soothes like sleep-stuffed eyes. Bleary with cool, it’s youth in full bloom, the leaves and fields...

In a mall, pressing against those glass exteriors fronting numerous interchangeable shops; it could be an emporium dedicated to exclusive...

The mother comes back to the empty house, hollowed and aching. There has been a deer inside since she was gone. She can still feel the...

After you died, I kept almost everything. Your hairbrush, your favorite blanket, the Get Well Soon cards. The items coalesced, a colorful...

Lapsed the first time you got baptized you were seven all you knew for sure was that you didn't wanna go anywhere that gets hotter than...

That noise! Constant. Deafening. Vibrating everything around me, the whole world shakes with the sound. There’s simply no way of coping....

A cat slips past as Rosa hesitates, peering round the corner to inspect the square. The whisper of the cat’s fur against her legs sets up...

There must be something wrong with her. All she cares about is food ever since her husband died the children moved so far away and she’s...

For weeks, Mr. and Mrs. Fortune and their young son, Bobby, had been looking forward to the circus coming to town. True, it wasn't one of...

Do you see me coming, when the days are short and the nights feverish, when the family gathers round, wondering whether to call the...

The savory smell of Grandma Lulu’s roasted pork and rosemary potatoes drifted into the living room as Wheel of Fortune played on the...

He asked if I could tie knots in cherry stems using my tongue. I said I’d never tried. We borrowed two pounds from his mum and went to...

she grabbed the butter knife at breakfast spread jam thin across dry toast walked to school with mum hugged her before she left learned...