Stay as Long as You Need
From outside, from the shop windows, it looks like any ordinary shop, with the products neatly organised. The prams are in one corner, because they are bulkier, and the cots…
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National Holiday
I wrote “National Holiday” back when I was in Geneva, though the image of the orange plastic cups goes much further back in time. Thank you Full House Literary for…
Moving Home
I love Ellipsis Zine. One of my favourite and earliest flashes (Like Making Bread) was published there and in general they always publish wonderful stories so I couldn’t be happier…
The Waiting Room
The first lines from my short story first published in Fat Cat Magazine. Peter counted one hundred and twenty-one steps from the entrance to the director’s office. A couple less…
The Shape of Your Head
My short story featured in EllipsisZine. There’s a gap in my memory of that morning, and it ends in front of our house not long after sunrise. I have no…
The Life Cycle of a Cucumber
First published in Constellate Magazine. Seed People think birth is romantic. Nature is romantic. Truth is, someone spat you last year, during a barbeque party. You were part of a…
The First Man on the Moon
This flash first appeared in Spelk Magazine in April 2018. Tom came up with the idea the summer he decided he’d be a filmmaker. He was fourteen then and so…
