Abigail Wyatt is waiting for the deluge to end

After the Deluge The third day: sky lightens;daylight dries her eyes.A world of creaturescreeps out from under,glossy-wet and new:big-winged butterflies;quick-stepping bugs;caterpillars, bursting-bright;a play-room paletteof blues and yellows,ocean and emerald...

Chapbooks: Grant Savage’s "Finding a Breeze" reviewed

Finding a BreezeAs with any field of endeavor, there are high flyers, egotists and non-assuming types that simply do their own thing. The chapbook in this small review comes from such a non-assuming man. Grant Savage’s Finding a Breeze was launched during the 2009...

New prose from Shanta Everington

Old Dear Hayley at the checkout looks through you.  Old Dear.Stodgy brown shirt barely concealing your lumpiness.Past your sell-by date, a package not worth opening.Recoils at the age spots on your crinkly hands as you offera white loaf, tin of baked beans...

Gwilym Williams has seen a thin fox

A Thin Fox a thin fox, hard as nails,thin, arthritic, rheumatic,septic eruptions on sore feet,keen nose and sorry bag of effluvium and entrailsup for the erectile, hard frost, somewhere to go, lakeside path, through snowdrop, primrose,daffodil, an early...