Short Fiction and Poetry

Ben entered a church raffle and won a dinner-for-two at Pierre's, the elite three-star restaurant near Laguna Beach. Ben needed [...]

The Vampire sits watching by her window knows the colour of my coat, when I put the bins out, do the school run. [...]

As the lavender-twilight sky blackened with night, the woman screamed outside my apartment building. [...]

Dear Recipient, Though you can’t see Me through the dark Glass in the darkness Of your mounting fear, I sincerely assure you [...]

If stranded on a Deserted Island And then given The choice of a Month’s worth of Food or a month’s Worth of pen and Paper [...]

When Jaali turned ten years old, his birthday gift was a shovel. It was much taller than him, with a rusted blade and a brown handle.[...]

In the eighties there were sacred nights spent with a cassette birthing wastebaskets full of crumpled papers of possibilities. [...]

We wore our band T-shirts so the bride’s father would recognise us. Huddled on a bench, we watched wedding guests trickle [...]

When he opened his eyes, he saw the dust dancing on the dawn sunbeams. He closed his eyes again and reached out with his mind [...]

her beloved grand-daughter was ill. she was cradling Jo Ann in her arms, the rocking chair keeping time with each heartbeat. [...]