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Thin Blue Line
Posted on October 4, 2014
She sat at the laminate table, head in her hands, completely spent. She had cried a lifetime’s quota of tears and there was no moisture left in her. She had become a desert of emotions, devoid of even the ability to smile wanly at her friends’ efforts to amuse her. The trajectory of her […]
Water Wings
Posted on October 4, 2014
For as long as she could remember Miriam had been “slowpoke”. The early polio, and later callipers on her legs had given her an awkward gait. She had tried to fit in with the others, waddling eagerly behind the tumbling, giggling group of friends.
First Day Blues
Posted on October 4, 2014
The key turns smoothly in the lock. She listens for the familiar click as the bolt draws back. Her hand reaches for the knob. A gentle turn and push. The door opens on the quiet dark beyond.
Birds of a feather
Posted on October 4, 2014
Tara massaged her craniofacial hinge with two feathers from her left wing in small circular movements. It was already daylight, she was tired and this was turning into a long and sleepless day. “So … you’re an owl?” The Twenty-eight was confused.
Sniper
Posted on October 3, 2014
I can see the world wobbling and waving in front of me as I lie flat and still on my stomach. It’s so hot that even the tar from the road is losing water. My head feels light and my breath comes in short bursts.
Welcome to the club
Posted on October 3, 2014
“Oh god. Ohgod-ohgod-ohgod-ohgod.” A thick ooze of rich scarlet stained her knickers. Sunita sat on the toilet with her head in her hands, knickers around her knees, nose dripping, tears streaming down her cheeks, not knowing what to do, and terrified of telling Mummy. She winced and clenched her fists as another cramp ripped through […]
Winter Wonderland
Posted on October 3, 2014 2 Comments
Mix stretched his arms skyward, extending each vertebra. He opened his lips into a round flat O, scrunched up his eyes, and yawned the yawn of the bone-weary. It had been a very long night. He looked around pleased with himself. The world was elegant, blanketed in her new downy white coat, wearing her finest […]
The Unbearable Hotness of being (with apologies to Milan Kundera)
Posted on October 3, 2014
The air rolled its warm fat fingers lovingly over Sophia’s lean, supple body, caressing every inch, as she lay on her side on top of the breakfast table. Making herself as flat as possible, she stretched each limb in turn, reaching out until her muscles squealed and shuddered with the ache of effort. She felt […]
Indelible
Posted on October 3, 2014
Mathaiamma shuffled away with a troubled mind, one foot dragging sluggishly behind her, her sari pulled across her nose and mouth to stop the choking dust she was kicking up, wisps of white hair escaping the confines of material. Her every movement was laboured now, her body weakened and battered and broken by the grinding […]
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