Time Twist
Time slips; it twists together.
The staircase now – Tom, frozen with his school-bag. The staircase then – Esther, stopped mid-step, her slim white foot in a dancing slipper, ball gown brushing banisters.
A moment when they see between, are aware of each other.
No-one ever believed they’d each seen a ghost.
Lesley Mace: Winner of the 2015 CWA, Margery Allingham Short Story prize, Lesley is also an Escalator Award winner, who has received Arts Council England funding. Her crime book, Dark Lantern, set in the backstreets of Victorian London, was shortlisted for an Escalator Award in 2013.