Fiction
Skinny Chris
Love is like bath bubbles.
Tender moments shine as they float, then pop without warning.
Museum For Women Who Did Not Appear
“There is a difference between a choice and a wish. We were never asked what we wished for.”
‘Communists FC Versus Anarchist United’
An Excerpt from the Novel ‘Checking Out of the Hotel Euthanasia’ by Gerard Graham due to be published by Ringwood Publishing 30th June 2017.
It Is Finished
The full moon casts a burnished halo on the bed, their bed, the marriage bed, banishing any and all traces of rapture from the room. The stench of unspoken words populates the heavy stillness as the two undress. She looks up and catches him gazing, with longing, at her plump, ripe breasts. She gives him […]
Leaving
The street lights wake her up before her alarm does. Light streams through the blinds of her window as if they weren’t there at all. For a moment, the street lights somehow manages to blind her, even though her eyes are still closed. It’s all very rude, she thinks. Niecey doesn’t even understand why they’re […]
Cyclops
…the cyclops makes monsters of us all” Roy Braithwaite (taken from a taped recording made by his Niece Geraldine Braithwaite 1987)