Professor Kirschner’s Revenge by Michael Loveday
Nothing was out of place: her accounts and paperwork were up-to-date, and today, as always, Professor Kirschner’s clothes had been selected meticulously. She wore a burnt ochre wool hat, a…
Nothing was out of place: her accounts and paperwork were up-to-date, and today, as always, Professor Kirschner’s clothes had been selected meticulously. She wore a burnt ochre wool hat, a…
An email chimed into my inbox – an invitation to a charity garden party in aid of abandoned dogs. ‘Teas, cakes, mystery guest and raffle. RSVP,’ the email read. The…
Those who saw him, hushed. The great man, the revered director, whose blood-steeped staging of Titus Andronicus was so visceral they’d set up a first-aid corner in the Old Vic’s…
They had a wilting poster of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen on the wall, a dirty fish tank with blue LEDs, blue-green algae and no fish, and the lazy chin-strap stubble…
At night, the neon sign above the storefront glows half-enthusiastically, so much so that most of the letters are completely burnt to their end. The remaining ones spell out “Land…
Good morning. My name is Miss Quinn. Q – U – I – N – N. Choose a pen that writes the colour of your curiosity, mark your books with…
There should, by rights, be an age at which you fully understand the relationship between your body and the world, rendering you graceful in all things, but there isn’t, so…
When one of the zucchinis split in two, aliens stepped out. No taller than a fingernail, the first alien saluted the others, jumping up and down like an overexcited electron.…
Most people won’t buy land that borders the Thruway, but her father sees opportunity. He builds a home close by. His oldest daughter, Macy, strides down the road. Crumbled asphalt…
This Christmas, when I arrive home from uni, your dad will greet me – ‘the boy genius’ – with an awkward shoulder squeeze in my own hallway. I will jerk…
The tower glistens ahead of me, its bright light shimmering against the waters. It’s a quiet place, on the edge of the world, far from anything I’m familiar with. Unattainable.…
The two boys were hunkered down in the corner of the school yard, sticker albums at their feet, searching through each other’s pile of swapsies. Nearby, their mates were kicking…