Roller Derby by Jennifer Gravley
After Jared’s mom didn’t come home from book club, Jared threw sticks at the fence until I stomped around to what my dad called the Rockwater side, and then he threw another…
After Jared’s mom didn’t come home from book club, Jared threw sticks at the fence until I stomped around to what my dad called the Rockwater side, and then he threw another…
“Guinness,” Reece tells the bartender, sliding onto the stool beside mine. “And another Stella for the lady.” The last time Reece and I were in the same place at the same time….…
It’s a surprise to see you at the school gate. I’m with Pete, the kids milling around, getting underfoot with PE kits and scooters. I didn’t know you’d moved back. Greasy hair…
The man turns his head and spits and his thick saliva lands in a clump of wild grass on the verge by the side of the road. It glues two blades together…
2. The Waves are churning like my stomach does when I’m hungry and the sand is wet. Of the two, my mother knows best, because her back rubs against it and the…
He was so thin. Look how thin! So much so it hurt to sit on solid surfaces, and so the sofa became his domain, poised on piles of downy-soft pillows, with arms…
I They sit side by side on the train. To anyone else, they may as well be strangers. He feels her warmth pressing against him and is comforted. He scratches his beard,…
I watch the froth develop as I pour from one cup to another; lift my arm high, let the liquid descend like an earthy waterfall. “Prepare the finest chocolates, Chantico,” he’d instructed.…
Simon eased the door open to avoid the whine of the old hinges and tiptoed inside. Thirty-four and still sneaking about like a damned child. He straightened up, pressed his foot down.…
He presses his nose against the window and squints through the wall of rain into the back garden. He exhales as he surveys the damage and devastation: the uprooted spuds, the sunken…
It had been months since I opened a window. The temperature outside was in single figures. Rufus was working on the rig, so it was just me in that big old house.…
The heist was a bust. We all knew it. Alice’s plan had been fine until it went wrong. That wasn’t her fault though. Johnny’s truck was shot up pretty bad but it…