by Helen Ivory | Dec 13, 2013 | Blogs & News
We are currently reading submissions for our annual 12 Days of Christmas feature. As you may have gathered, we have quite a slanted approach to the festive season, so please have a look at our previous ’12 Days’ features for guidance. And perhaps taking...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 13, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
Meeting And then, I met myself Actually no.. Not yet. I’d like to meet her one day In a more open way; I saw the sea I met the one who rescued her I touched the palm She ate a date Memory flew… touched by sunray Tickling the soul She is...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 11, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
Epiphany What with tenement living and one thing having lead to another I began to wonder What kind of noise would a shopping trolley make pushed down our stairwell? Kwik Save produced a peach. I wheel it round past the offy past La Cala and quietly up...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 10, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
Cruising Country The heat wave settles on the dashboard. We’re cruising it below the eighties. Beside us are fields of green, vast as boredom uninterrupted. Music from the radio takes the AC to another level of cool. It’s like 7pm dinner without frills; the...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 9, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
Creation “Everybody knows it must be a trick but centuries of sawing bodies in half have revealed little in the way of details.” So much misdirection I missed the switch between Uncle Hector pulling coins from unwashed ears to this, the man who shares...
