by Chloe Elliott | Jan 28, 2023 | Featured, Prose
Skeleton It was one of those fancy restaurants where they pushed your chair in for you, brought the whole fish to the table. We all had to watch while the waiter performed his theatrical surgery, removing the head with a twist, then a stylish flaying until, with a...
by Chloe Elliott | Jan 22, 2023 | Featured, Prose
How to Make Tako Nigiri Cooked sushi rice Sashimi-grade octopus Wasabi Nori A feeling of closeness A sharp knife First, you will need to cook sushi rice. On your dad’s chair he balances a donabe rice cooker. He crouches over the bag of rice on the...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 6, 2023 | Featured, Prose
The Ewer Once upon a time, a young man and a young woman almost discovered a genie in a bottle. The Genie, trapped inside a ewer older than Narmer, was a steal. Set on a shelf inside Endwell Antiques, the artifact, competing with pretty vases,...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 18, 2022 | Featured, Prose
A Strange Madeleine My paternal grandfather was a dentist and set up his practice before the First World War in his parents’ home at 222 Linthorpe Road in Middlesbrough. The house had a workshop at the bottom of the garden for the dental...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 1, 2022 | Featured, Prose
The Noise Outside That day, on the patio, you heard a noise and you jumped up, ready to act, while I just froze, telling the story again and again to your mother, her lover, everyone knew that you were brave and I just froze, my sister, my dad, a...
by Chloe Elliott | Oct 25, 2022 | Featured, Prose
The Long Grass They’ve just kicked it into the long grass, one politician says to another on TV. I tune out from the others sitting around me at Tree Tops. I feel it now, that long grass, cool and welcome, at the far reaches of the playing fields...
