by Sabine Wilson-Patrick | Oct 29, 2026 | Featured, Prose
Knife on Butter Before the butcher touched bone, tendon, cartilage, hooks, scales, steel, he sat across from his wife with a blunt knife and waited for the butter to soften. Morning occupied the dining table in pieces: bread beneath a cloth,...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 19, 2026 | Featured, Prose
My Story Will Be Perfect Rain like it was Biblical. Sidewalk empty, just me and a happy drunk with the weather-hardened look of a rough sleeper sauntering down the hill from Victoria Station in my direction, shouting out his joy to the world. As...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 8, 2026 | Featured, Prose
Salvage By the third year, the sun had sorted the Japanese bottles from the Chinese ones. Kana went first, then the Chinese characters, then the English, the ink lifting off in that order every time. Under it, the plastic held its shape, white as...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 8, 2026 | Featured, Flash Fiction, Prose
My bucket doesn’t have a list and it’s never been kicked Even on the really bad days when the mocking shine of its metal body has tempted my foot to make contact, something about this ambivalence carrier makes me take a beat and reconsider. Its...
by Zakia Carpenter-Hall | Jun 30, 2026 | Featured, Prose
When You Must Stop a Wedding His phone pings; the morning sun glares. Kyle staggers to the bathroom mirror amidst empty bottles for inducing oblivion. Red-eyed and dishevelled, with stubble masking gray complexion and black hair in matted clumps;...
by Zakia Carpenter-Hall | Jun 28, 2026 | Featured, Prose, Uncategorized
Thunderstorms. Fireworks. I’m in the spare bedroom/office. Chrysty’s in a rotten bad mood. she walks the apartment like a donkey stable. kicks holes out of drywall and violently washes up plates. she’s told me get out and I’ve...
