by Ivory Web | Mar 23, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
In the spin Mavis was locked in her flat again. She was not a trafficked woman, nor was she the partner of a manipulative and cruel significant other.She could have left the flat without even using a key. She had the key if she needed it. She wanted to take the dog to...
by Ivory Web | Mar 22, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
The Bull on the Bowling GreenWe carried the bull’s head all summerlike a standard. That brute weight of clay,rough-rendered though stout-horned – I’d worked after Picasso in art class.The end of school; for our passing-outwe camped by the disused rail...
by Ivory Web | Mar 21, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Liberated Fruit In the supermarket, the little watermelon cubes sat, docile, next to the plastic containers housing honeydew melon cubes, doing time in their own small square sections. Like cats de-clawed, under the buzzing fluorescent lights, the melon cubes’...
by Ivory Web | Mar 20, 2010 | Reviews
a pint for the ghost by Helen Morttall-lighthouse – www.tall-lighthouse.co.ukISBN: 978 1 904551 73 7, Paperback: £5.00, 42ppFive-times winner of the Foyle Young Poets Award, recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, winner of the Manchester Young Writer Prize...
by Ivory Web | Mar 20, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Time traveller The girl on the underground is a sartorial time traveller.Navy high waisted pencil skirt tightens over her ripenedbottom, blue pinstripe shirt, demurely buttoned up to thecollar, sets her rocket breasts on a youthful trajectory.Despite the...
