Treat by Josie Turner
Everything makes Andrew laugh – the menu, a wicker basket of small seeded loaves, the sommelier who invites him to taste the wine. He laughs when a waitress strafes the…
Everything makes Andrew laugh – the menu, a wicker basket of small seeded loaves, the sommelier who invites him to taste the wine. He laughs when a waitress strafes the…
All the other kids call him the snake. At first behind his back, but now to his face. At lunch times he performs his routines beyond the view of the…
Dancers have short life spans. The second time you come back from surgery with one leg buried in plaster and hunger in your eyes, you tell me this again, like…
Along the long-abandoned harbour’s deserted warehouses each dilapidated red-brick building had once had a numeral whitewashed roughly on its wall, up to 13. They believed the unluckiness of 13 was…
They decided to rent out the farmhouse to the daughter of their best friends. The young woman had been a charming, mischievous child always twisted around her mother’s legs, and…
The snow-white hydrangeas will turn blue and fly into a million pieces, in a miraculous yet predictable process—almost science, but not what you’d think. Through the thin lace of the…
The bar was getting crowded. Boisterous, tipsy, some of them sloshed, none of the customers at The Eagle looked exactly happy to Paul, but maybe it was his mood. He’d…
I don’t remember whose idea it was to call the exorcist. How anyone knew who to call. My dad had been telling us about the strange things happening at night.…
I wasn’t expecting to see you there, tongue lolling, amber eyes, pleading. Your fur was drenched from the rain. You were shivering on the step, do you remember? I could…
The stars shone bright and the sliver moon hid behind the Stuckey’s neon sign. They’d been driving all night and Clem’s neck was knotted so tightly she could barely turn…
The first twin arrived screaming and scrunched, as expected. The doctors, though, were not yet smiling. There was tugging and frozen expressions from the midwife and the surgeon before the…
1. The cook asks the Prince to pick some rosemary for their suppertime dish. The Prince has been fearful of rosemary since childhood. When he bends close to the rosemary…