Over in the eastern sky, the large yellow disk of the sun was making an appearance. A gleam of light shone through the narrow gap of the olive-coloured curtains at No. 47, a modest house in typical suburban Surrey, a place where the same events occur each day and...
Smoke obscured the view for a moment as Oksana searched for a sign. She squinted but there was no platform, only the wide blurred plain, covered in mist. This was nobody’s stop. The voice of the guard on duty swept through the carriages: “The engine is broken!” The...
I was supposed to be at Corinna by now; they were expecting me at the pub, but the journey had taken longer than I thought. I’d driven around the backblocks of western Tasmania, getting out of the car to take arty photos of the burnt bush. Fires had been through the...
Growing up, I saw Princess Diana a lot. In newspapers, on TV, smiling from photo frames. Suspended, headless, in the centre of porcelain plates on plastic stands never intended for use. Our house was plastered with her image, some of them just the same photograph,...
Content warning: sexual content, domestic violence, psychiatric treatment Noelle had promised she would write. She was different when she said it. She was the straight-backed, empty-eyed Noelle I’d come to loathe in our last weeks together. The Noelle that smiled too...
A scruffy valley of fields lay behind me. I had lost my path and stumbled along amongst the cabbages for the better part of the day. Before me I found an impenetrable snarl of shrubbery. Then, surprisingly close, the clang and grind of a heavy metal lid being moved....
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