Men Being Animals by Adam Lock
Because she’s home early, and the mirrored cabinet door is open, and the catch on the bathroom door is faulty, Aaron can see her showering. She freezes, imagines the embarrassment for both…
Because she’s home early, and the mirrored cabinet door is open, and the catch on the bathroom door is faulty, Aaron can see her showering. She freezes, imagines the embarrassment for both…
“We live in a world of labels,” the labels on the doors inform Stella. She looks at the labelled boxes stacked against her manila walls. Three years in her job, three years…
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 stuck in…
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 watch it…
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, stops short…
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 yellows 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. “Let him…
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 at what…
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 the other…
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 one day…
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 didn’t know…
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 right hand…