Like Making Bread by Slawka G. Scarso
She hated dusk now. She could cope with the rest of the day. She was doing great, in fact, all things considered. Even at night, she could sleep now. Most…
She hated dusk now. She could cope with the rest of the day. She was doing great, in fact, all things considered. Even at night, she could sleep now. Most…
‘Why do we bring up the past when we’re standing in the doorway?’ Lorrie is saying goodnight to her daughter Day when they find themselves going over the recent death…
We were already running late. Stay in the house, I shouted as the kids craned their pale moon faces past me at the prone slip of fur just beyond the…
Starbucks. London. A duffle bag by her side. I’d tell you what she looked like, but it’s difficult to describe. She had eyes for seeing; a mouth for talking; ears…
Jeff honestly didn’t know how to feel about it. His stomach sank either way. Brought in during the middle of the night, the block of cells around the lone officer…
As far as I can tell, there has never been a rulebook written about how to grieve, which is maybe why I’m here, stood on a tightly packed tram somewhere…
I wipe a film of condensation and peek through the smeared glass to a driveway covered in slush and ice. What remains of the previous week’s snowfall is dimpled with…
As if the hardwood floor were ice, Jake skated in his socks across the family room and into the dining area. He plopped onto his chair, just as his mother…
Her Grandma went gaga, then died. So Alice moved in and her boyfriend came soon after. And they set up house together in her Grandma’s flat. They took up the…
A horse’s heart is the size of a newborn child. Two hands are needed to carry it. She sees herself reflected in the glass; her face overprints the heart in…
Because she’s home early, and the mirrored cabinet door is open, and the catch on the bathroom door is faulty, Aaron can see her showering. She freezes, imagines the embarrassment…
“We live in a world of labels,” the labels on the doors inform Stella. She looks at the labelled boxes stacked against her manila walls. Three years in her job,…