Ellipsis Zine

Gabriel didn’t see the fall. He was kneeling behind his rosebush and could only hear the skitter-clatter of the skateboard followed by a dull slap of flesh and the boy’s…

I’d kept it all these years just in case we had a girl. I unzipped the bag and it opened like a tired eye, revealing a sliver of swirly flowers,…

Licorice-flavored steam rises from the bath. At home we have normal bubbles from a pink plastic bottle, but Gran picks elderflower leaves from her tree in the courtyard and boils…

Eoin sits cross-legged on the floor, his five-year-old brain absorbed by his latest Lego challenge. His sandy brown hair is too long and covers his ears. My sister tells me…

They are driving on a suburban parkway. The vacation, so long awaited, still feels new. They have walked in a woods by a boulder-strewn stream. They have showered together and…

At home Rachael and I seldom eat seafood. Even though we live by the ocean, and can faintly smell the brine in the breeze when the wind comes from the…

Di had savage eyes, blue and clear as rain. She had a heart nobody could easily step out of. Rumor was that she shed her opaque skin in the ladies’…

I poke and jab at the boy’s teeth, scraping hard on the enamel. Stop squirming, you horrible little sod. The overhead light doesn’t blind me from the look of pure…

Moxie, a stray collie, chases a bouncing balloon between parked cars. The balloon is red, not that she knows. The both of them are like children bounding and splashing in…

I am told with a variety of hand signals the nursing shark is not dangerous. But the lithe blue-grey body swaying sinuously through the water instils panic. Its mouth hangs…

Police have released a CCTV image of a man they would like to interview in connection with the disappearance of Caroline Marshall, the estate agent who was last seen in…