‘One day Daddy,’ my daughter Rose says as she washes up after dinner. ‘One day everything will be so much…
The hay and crops were on fire, but I turned my back on the haunting flames. Men were flinging buckets…
‘Everything was easy for you because you were the youngest. I was the one who ended up with all of…
What happened? Honestly, I don’t know where to begin. After the crash, with Bill on life support and us having…
He would encircle me in his arms and heft me up near shoulders. “The moon,” I would yell. It seemed…
I met that nice man from next door this evening, we usually end up putting out our bins at the…
On a cold day, they stuck him in a cold coffin in the cold ground with the cold birds fluttering…
The man looks frantic, on the point of tears. ‘Sorry to bother you,’ he begins. ‘Did anyone hand in a…
I dread teaching irony. My students were always confused and I was constantly trying to come up with a unique…
‘This used to all be farmland when I was a boy,’ I inform my youngest girl. ‘Really?’ she asks in…