by Madeleine Tomasoa || "What do you think of the sea?" Charles says, suddenly.
Author: Terri-Jane Dow
The Creations
by Cory Roberson || Eve materialized, all raven hair and glowing lips, from the rib of a man
Last Supper
by Angèle Eliane || Sat at the table
Calm in Storms
by Susan Hatters Friedman || The twins are finally asleep
Childhood: Redux
by Annabel Hynes || I tell her he’s beautiful even though all babies look more or less the same, round-cheeked and pink and squinty.
Hillsboro Bay
by Holly Day || The jellyfish flutter just below the surface of the water
Vulpine
by Terri Mullholland || Marion wakes early in the morning, before dawn, to the sound of foxes screaming.
Family Tree
by Jenny Rowe || I am my unwavering foundation
We Who Saw The Lightning
by Suzannah Ball || They were gradually gathering on their walk.
The Coming Bad Days by Sarah Bernstein
‘The truth is that sometimes we just want the worst to happen.’ Reminiscent of Thomas Bernhard, Rachel Cusk and Gwendoline Riley, The Coming Bad Days is a penetrating portrait of feminine vulnerability and cruelty. It announces the arrival of a startling new voice in fiction: intelligent, brutal, sure, and devastatingly funny.
