Ellipsis Zine

A month into travelling, your first week in Spain, and the three of you have hired a tent with a hole in the roof. A car with a hole in…

Your tension releases like a breaking dam as you wrap warm, beefy hands around my long neck. Days spent toiling on engines and mufflers have left your palms rough, dark…

Mim asked me if I knew the cigarette trick and I said yes. I didn’t but figured it could only be one of a few things. Smoking it backwards, flipping…

On the tailgate of the black pickup truck in front is a silver badge of a snorting bull. The truck is waiting for the red lights to change, its exhaust…

Maddie’s mother was kicking her out of the house again. She’d shown up last night, drunk, knocking into the flower planters, ringing the doorbell when she couldn’t get her key…

A trail of shimmering silver follows the waning moon in its wake. The sea mascerates in the pale light. Sways ever so slightly in the gentle gulf of the night.…

After that boy died in 1955, no one was allowed to dive from the lift bridge, or even ride it. Each boat going through served as a reminder. For twenty…

It is a hot day, and in natural consequence, the high street is a hive. The fruit stall sits behind the pavement, a beacon, Mother Nature’s exhibit of all her…

Cut to the inside of a car, speeding along a coastal road at night, oncoming headlights occasionally whiting out their faces. “It’s cathartic.” “It’s cheap. Kill off a kid, a…

There is only one story. It always takes place in a haunted house. Terrible things happen to the unlucky people who find themselves in this house, but sometimes one of…

I told you in our coffee shop. You squinted and with flint-eyes said, ‘That’s a mug’s game.’ You said I should have been protected… I always thought you would protect…

Mum always said the best way to win someone’s heart was to take it. “Don’t wait baby girl,” she’d say, “you get there first. You be the one to rip…