It was a while since I’d last opened Julia’s wardrobe.As a girl I wondered what she could possibly […]
Category Archive: Fiction
Every man is the ruin of a man, I might have thought. This man who appeared before my […]
The trick is to lift up the right foot, just a few centimetres off the floor, move it […]
Below is an extract from my book, Seed. In answer to a question Minor Lits asked me earlier this week I […]
The train station was crowded. Flashes of the floor showed black slush dragged into the scuffle from outside. […]
Mick brought the banter. He was the life and soul, necking cold tins of lager as the stereo […]
One moment, the air between the walls and the furniture and the people was filled with nothing besides […]
There’s a guy in the carriage, sitting alone. Opposite him a woman, also alone. In the next compartment […]
A young revolutionary plants a bomb in a factory on the outskirts of Algiers during the Algerian War. […]
—Why do you want to see my toes? —Curiosity. —I’m afraid of the consequences. I wouldn’t want you […]
