I took my sweet time learning to talk. Mom and Dad thought I was dumb. A few teachers did too.…
It’s one of the few things I remember off by heart from secondary school. My otherwise uninspiring physics teacher told…
My fourth suicide was a hoot. My boyfriend broke up with me in a text. “Hey Sarah, I think we…
My name is Alastair Humboldt. I have been a book critic for the Literary Review of London for thirty years.…
Uncle Frank spent all of his time in the garden shed. From the crack of dawn until the small hours…
Blah, blah, blah. He really did talk a lot. I tried to listen and follow but I was never interested…
Pesky little kids, coming around here and eating my lovely house in the middle of the night. I built my…
There was a freak snowstorm on Easter. I had the day shift in the ER at Chicago General. Snowflakes, heavy…
It‘s my turn to do the shopping run, and run it will have to be. The rent is three months…
There is a mermaid that lives inside me. She rests under my left breast. I’ve been to the sea twice.…