Trevor’s Head by Lucy Goldring
“‘fraid it won’t be ready till tomorrow,” say the overalled knees poking out from under my silver Fiat Panda. “But the receptionist said four thirty?” When I panic my voice goes all…
“‘fraid it won’t be ready till tomorrow,” say the overalled knees poking out from under my silver Fiat Panda. “But the receptionist said four thirty?” When I panic my voice goes all…
It is said that drosophila do not feed on blood – that they do not even have the ability to bite – but still this one is biting him as it has…
The thing about Connor is his smell. Like meadows, and autumn rain, and something elusive I don’t even want to describe, that makes him feel like home and walking through the forest…
At moments like this, I wished Giffords still had a head, so I could smack him across the back of it and get him to calm down. He zoomed across the ship’s…
My Love, I need to tell you about the Venera spacecraft. From the 1960s to the 80s, the Soviets sent these little cans, one after the other, to the surface of Venus.…
A warm breeze passes through the hotel window and stirs the gauze curtains. For a moment I can see the bright coastline across the bay, a curve of coloured lights sparkling in…
Tommy had known Lissy for as long as he could remember (and he remembers EVERYTHING) but had never been able to look her in the eye. Not even now as she stroked…
We always met in the dying summer, when unpicked peaches fell on the ground. The ants sucked up the sweetness of the overripe and bruised fruit and danced on the black ground…
[TW: The following flash contains reference to an eating disorder and self-harm.] Mia wants me to die. Porcelain cools my forehead as I hunch over the leaky toilet. She holds my hair…
“Don’t look now,” she says. “Then when?” “Later, when I’m gone.” I angle my head in that way she hates, fishing for a reaction. She gives me nothing. I lunge for the…
When he tells me the result I am in the drawing room. It used to be the room women would withdraw to, whilst the men were left to have important conversations around…
They were on the run with everything they would ever need, mostly the two bags full of eyeballs sitting in the backseat of their 2003 Hyundai Elantra hatchback, but also the other…