Once upon a time, there was girl born with a glowing heart. Everyone could see it tucked behind her rib cage, pulsing like a pink lighthouse. She didn't need a night-light, because her heart glowed ... [+]
Cleo curled up on the rainbow-coloured beanbag next to her mom's desk. It had been bad enough when she had to go back to school to finish out the term after Dad's accident. But adding insult to ... [+]
My wife went to bed fifteen days ago, and she's been there ever since. We came home from the hospital dazed and empty-handed. Eleanor climbed the stairs, rushed past the freshly painted second ... [+]
Tonight, like most nights, James Shelby woke in the small hours and listened to the silence.
He pulled on his robe, went to the kitchen, and made tea.
Moving quietly so as to not disturb the
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Olivier Brossard had been hanging men for the best part of a decade, and he'd never seen the rope break. It wasn't uncommon for folk to try, usually magicians spitting fire and brimstone as they ... [+]
Menopause is an unraveling. All the selves I knew, shed upon the floor in sloughed off skins from which I step out gingerly, naked. They tell me I am invisible now. Is that another word for free? ... [+]
Lena walked through the soccer field and to the edge of the woods. The large oak greeted her, outstretched branches bursting green with the early spring. "Hello," she said, patting its trunk. She ... [+]
We brought them with us accidentally, or maybe they were secret smuggled pets for someone who worried they might get lonely. They'd've been right to worry: it's really lonely on the moon. Howeve ... [+]
Everyone knows how to take a bath, right? I thought I did, until I visited Japan for the first time. Japan has elevated bathing to an art form, complete with accoutrements like wooden buckets ... [+]
