Tishfank by Christopher James
I took my goldfish to see the aquarium manta rays. What do you reckon? I asked. “Meh,” he said. “That sting in their tale didn’t do them much good. They’re…
I took my goldfish to see the aquarium manta rays. What do you reckon? I asked. “Meh,” he said. “That sting in their tale didn’t do them much good. They’re…
She was reminiscent of a freshly baked Victoria sponge – her breath warm and sugary, her face round and golden. I longed to press my fingers into her flesh and…
What if the bully wasn’t the one with the fists? I know it sounds strange, especially when the fists were most certainly real and quite sharp. Just the word, fist,…
The crystal decanter, that’s first, then there’s the back of the red marble Buddha, his face beaming on the other side, then something new, a plastic blob of reds and…
On cold days his knee still ached. He’d lean on his stick by the front garden fence, his cap pulled down, and his padded jacket wrapped around his thinning frame.…
It’s too early in the day to want for things you cannot have. Those are nightly chants to ruin sleep. It doesn’t matter if you’re little and soft, still shocked…
I am that thought behind all the other thoughts. Trailing at the heels of the other thinking. There is no need to disguise myself; I am a frail silhouette behind…
Long ago, a New England widower promised he would shield his only child, a young daughter, from the dangers of the world, but he could not govern against disease, and…
I did it. I found them. I made my way in their sanctum. They thought they could keep me away by suddenly becoming privacy conscious on Facebook. As if I…
One. She stepped onto road and there was one before she even started. As she stretched her hamstrings and twisted her back the deer pranced away into the woods. Her…
I did feel special with his little hand in mine; warm and trusting as dough. On fine days we’d cross the coast road to the beach his family owned. He…
I sat in my bathing suit on the damp sand. Cold, green, foam-edged fingers of brine beckoned me forward; I was ready for my final swim. * I’d known `The…