Stories

Guest Rules By Lorna Easterbrook I’m seven years old. I think. They can’t be that long married, my uncle and his new wife, because they

How Much Rain Can A Cloud Hold? By Laurie Bolger She wants to be the girl in the passenger seat, feet up on the dashboard,

Felt By Claire Hart In the end, we just don’t fit. Like my favourite jumper, too many times through the wash, we restrict my movements

One To Four By Catherine Edmunds Rachel is curled in the big red armchair, listening to Haydn string quartets and reading about a container ship

Handkerchief By Sarah McPherson Nanny Susan says lying’s a sin, and people who sin go to hell. Julie knows she means when they die, but

Good People Make Bad Couples By Marina Rubin Flora was getting married. Neither she nor her fiancé wanted to get married but their relationship was

Digging By Katya Bacica I discovered a tree stump. To think I would start afresh with this garden, me standing proudly at the edge of

Evening By Sam Howroyd She smiled with her mouth shut. He grinned back a spread out smile with his mouth wide open and his teeth

Demonstrating Change By Cherry Potts The crowd was quiet now, shuffling uneasily before the enormity of the gates and the dark-clothed, plastic-shielded, bright-helmeted wall defending

The Importance Of Fish By Julia Deery At ten I was not good with fish. They were slippery creatures. Tricky. Slithering through my fingers. “You