Poor Mare by Karen Arnold

White jaw bone hanging slack until the boy beneath the sheet pulls on the wire, making it clack clack clack. The adults laugh and cheer, children scream with delicious terror, some very…

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Over Easy by Nikki Williams

He showed up in their little town when the weather began to bite, treetops the hue of sticky honey.   The scrappy sort; straggled hair, patchy beard. Bobbed and bolted around like…

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Super Syd by Gavin Crippin

Syd bumps. Syd gets bump notes.  Lots. Four a week, most weeks. Syd had three on the same Wednesday last term.  “Record breaker!”  Everyone smiles.  Syd can’t remember why he gets them.…

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Holy Smoke by Ben Tufnell

When Blake died, I saw his soul emerge from his body. At least, that’s what I assume it was. He took a final breath, a laboured drawing in of air, and when he…

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Chaos Theory by Dawn Miller

I flip my dampened pillow and stretch my arms, the bed too wide for one. Through the window, starlings punch the sky in a liquid mass. A blood-orange sunset edges the treeline.…

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