Before it fell out of vogue with the vermin-people, this had been a sculpture park, or so we heard. Their ideologies and utopias, now abandoned, became interwoven with the ivy and rosebay willowherb. When we arrived here, to the sound of the pipes and the beat of our...
Every summer, the community of Port Tawe contracts against outsiders; and yet, this summer, they want to know everything about him. In her constant to and fro between the bakery and café, Riona hears them whisper. The young man. The artist. The stranger. People speak...
Content warning: violence/violent imagery Spray and wipe. Spray and wipe. Nemesis cleaned the conveyor belt until it glistened like the back of a killer whale. Puffy plastic bags and tins and glass bottles would move on top of it until they reached the scanner where...
Content warning: self-harm and suicide, mental illness, violence/violent imagery I kneel with towels, mopping, mumbling, It’s not his fault. It’s not his fault. It’s not. It’s all falling in. It’s all falling down and I’m falling in and falling down and it’s flooding....
Content warning: self-harm and suicide Much to his numbed astonishment, Natwar Rai awoke in his neatly made, perfumed bed after having overdosed on sleeping pills the night before. He had wolfed them down with a mind that had made peace with itself and had ceased to...
I didn’t complain about the hotels. There was nowhere else for us to go. I still lived at home with my mother and father. A strange life, it must seem to Ian’s wife. A lonely life. “Hello there. Is there something you want? Someone you’re looking for? He’s not at home...
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