We met when we were six. The house we moved to, on Havelock Street, was opposite Stink’s house. It was a small street with about fifteen houses. Houses pushed together in a tight terrace, all with the same backyards. We …
‘Granddad, where are we?’
Ralph made a panoramic sweep of the field and bit his bottom lip. The setting was alien to the town dweller.
‘I, er..’
They were in a meadow of warm calf-high grasses that swayed in a …
I am a skinny and awkward boy entrusted to my great auntie for the summer of my fourteenth year. I am out of place among the antiques in her river house, built just after the Great War, its wraparound porch …
At the end of July, Ida Lindeman was certain she had to tell Nack about Spearfish, South Dakota. At the start of August, she had decided, again, that it wasn’t none of his business.
Ida flipped the lights on. The …
Adam
It’s happening again. There is itchiness under my skin and tension in my muscles. It’s like some part of me wants to crawl out and away from her. I force a broad smile, looking her in the eye, because …
Dae-yeon allows himself to be pushed through the crowd in the Louvre, one of the few times he could walk around unnoticed, anonymous. The crowd streams towards the Italian paintings, the Mona Lisa and the like. Dae-yeon, or Daniel, the …
Edith knows the bears by sight. She has named them all, and knows which was her husband, based on his lumbering gait and the scar stretching along his back from his time in the service. “He always had a bad …
She is old, but not that old. She would like you to know that about her. She had dreams once, as you likely do. Fame. Fortune. Independence. It sounds silly; cliche, even. But perhaps you have those dreams too. If …
Tsukiko sat on a tranquil, grassy hill, between a palm tree and a cypress, and scanned the clear, Californian night sky. The stars of Orion, winking in the sky, hung above her. She knew that her father could see the …
Secret Club Pink. That’s the color of my mother’s lipstick. I watch her apply it carefully in the sun visor mirror as I sit behind her in the car. She takes a tissue and puts it between her lips, leaving …