Content warning: violence/violent imagery, kidnapping and abduction, child abuse Secret Recipe The trick for good gingerbread is fresh ginger, grated vigorously until your fingers scrape the metal and drops of blood dribble in the dough. The trick for maximum...
Content warning: death or dying When I go out to the bin, it hasn’t been emptied and is full of strangers’ rubbish. Takeaway boxes, greasy paper, naked silver tins. I pull out the top bag, drag it to my neighbour’s kerb, and split it open with the keys in my pocket....
Content warning: violence/violent imagery, abuse, death or dying 1. Now The Saints say only the wicked go looking for trouble—but Saints would say that, wouldn’t they? Looking at it, Abigail realises what they say doesn’t matter because now she can see it, all of it,...
Content warning: death or dying, racism and racial slurs Even from a distance, as Zora parks their car among the maze of vehicles in the field, Xochitl can see the carnival lights dazzling ahead of them like an interstellar nebula. She gasps, “Oh my god!” “Holy shit,”...
Content warning: discriminatory language, death/dying, ageism The cauld air slaps ma cleanly shaven face as ah step oot intae the front gairden. No in a bad way, ye unnerstaun. It’s good tae feel such a vibrant sensation in the mornin – well it’s good tae feel it...
Content warning: mental illness A quiet breaking has begun. A single dry leaf crushed into asphalt. The sound of this breaking. Even quieter – can I go even quieter? A cough swallowed whole in a silent room. A grating, a friction is imperative. The promise of...
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