Sand Cake
By Lisa Reily My birthday cake drowns in the foam, its stick-candlesand pretty shells swept away by the sea. I watch from my sandy fortress, legs splashed by th...
Category: Family matters
Things I Never Said To My Father
By Bart Van Goethem I love you I love you I love you
Truncate
By Aaron Menzel You can watch plenty of movies On a fourteen-hour flight. Knock back a few Jack’n’cokes (You’re sure these are free?) As you drift off against y...
Punnett Square
By Anonymous The hue of rage is black not red. He taught her this when she was six, and he locked her out of her house for being a child, a crescent moon night ...
The Calls
By Claire Wilkins It was me who made the two anonymous calls. 1988 You denied your ex-husband visitation rights to see his two and four-year-old children. All y...
Uncanny Stranger
By Stevie Heaven My parents were identity thieves. I am a ghost story: haunted by the familial triad and its organised crimes. I am a misopater, an Electra comp...