Just as Cold and Gone by Jason Jackson
Winter, the coldest for fifteen years, and James is wearing the scarf he stole in his university days from a girl who broke up with him for thinking Kundera was…
Winter, the coldest for fifteen years, and James is wearing the scarf he stole in his university days from a girl who broke up with him for thinking Kundera was…
‘Do you want a girl or a boy?’ ‘I don’t care what sex it is, as long as it isn’t ginger,’ said its mother. It was ginger. He. Didn’t stand…
That was the last time I saw you. Your 21st birthday. I felt like a ghost gate-crashing a party for the living, and my God were you living. The partying…
I wonder, briefly, if I might drown myself in the meadow, the pasture is deep enough to render a sea. At least then I wouldn’t be able to hear them…
The doctor’s voice. They are talking about him again. His eyes are closed and he sees a vast space of light and darkness. Her words bounce around his head to…
You listen to the sound of gulls swooping overhead and push back against your toes, the garden chair tipping, threatening to throw you over. You hate Bon Jovi, choosing instead…
The dead line up for the soup, and we have run out of china bowls. Mummy hisses: I am too slow and Helga is blowing bubbles. The icy water doesn’t…
Lauren stared at him rather amused. A scarf wrapped tightly around her neck. My Angel Chapter 1 Green, are the fields of Heaven. Soft, with lush, long grass. Glistening, with…
The first time he wore a tie was at his mother’s funeral. His father gripped him by the shoulders and circled the thin black cord around his throat without making…
I went to sleep to the sad sigh of the last train and woke up to the breadscent from the bakery below. Already things require clarification: sleep took place in…
eVe’s card was wrapped in a clean rag. She’d unravelled it that morning and placed it in her dress pocket. The walk was long, but she’d brought two powders to…
P – A – T – R – O – N – I – S – E The letters light up like bulbs as she reads it. There has been…