Tag: 2026
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Talons
But to June, she sees these words as broad strokes, boxing paint and colour within a canvas. She wants to draw on the wall: the floors: paint the door: the outside of her house. Hell, she wants to drip paint down the roof, push colour into the grass in her front garden: dig it into…
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Pocket Change
We learn history in order to ensure that it does not repeat itself. We learn history and learn that we have been terrible: that we will always be terrible, as long as all institutions of modernity are built upon terrible things. And all institutions of modernity are built upon terrible things. Hell, even now we…
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Pillow forts and potpourri
In the privacy of her bedroom, before Stanley gets home, Beatrice will pretend that her name is B and nothing more. She will strip before the mirror, contort her fleshy parts, pull her breasts to her armpits until her chest turns flat. She will stand before herself, as half herself, and see someone more than…
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Flagging
The tables are sticky, the alcohol is flowing, the sun is pulsing. In this moment, June feels suspended in the summer. There is life, and then there is this. Jean shorts and a short-sleeved shirt. Her nose is filled with the half sweet, half sour scent of suncream mixing with cigarette smoke. The pub garden…
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Intermission
The sky is deep, dark, and violent, hanging low. In the distance, three seagulls sail the wind, twisting their bodies higher, then lower, then higher again. It is monumentally loud – the sound of the sand scattering across the beach, the crashing waves, the February air hitting the rocks to the West.