Leda listened but she didn’t really understand. She laughed when they laughed. She hid her mouth behind her hand and sniggered at what she assumed were jokes. She never understood them. Babies came from sex. Sex was a farmer who grew the babies the way you might grow marijuana, covertly, hidden a...
Same half-crooked smile, same intent stare that made it seem that he could see right through her shirt. Michael tilted his head and looked down at her bare feet, up a little to her tight, childish pleated shirt, tan coloured, a little too short. She smoothed it down over her hips. In the daylight...
Like underwear, paintbrushes are more expensive the smaller they are. I was making fiddly adjustments to a lead figurine of a man in a tunic with high boots and a sword at his hip, adjusting the color of his cape while we waited on my aunt so the game could begin. My mother spent the time re-read...
I do not look at her naked and she does not look at me. The masking tape on the ground dividing her side of the room from mine is a solid wall. ‘Stop! Now!’ When she shouts at me it is like an earthquake, fault lines in the invisible wall spreading out, the sound of her voice a wrecking ball. The...