FINDING STORIES: an interview with Toni Jordan
ALEC PATRIC The road ahead is harder and longer than any of us can know. That’s what they say on the first day of a creative writing course, and …
Christmas Dust (Emilie Collyer)
Early memories the warm smell of ginger and spiced biscuits baking decorating them with slivered almonds and sugar ball bearings Christmas hymns waft through the house at night lounge …
Rilke was a jerk (Pseudonymous Jones)
Rilke says that dogs look so sad because they can sense the world of human meaning but know they are excluded from it. In much the same way, the reason …
At the Katz (Graham Nunn)
i. The insect that chirps here every night tonight is chirping under the bed. The insect sound is cold and constant as the rain whispering outside the …
Fistfuls of truth and heart
Now that Verity La is up and running, and 2010 is careering to its end, we thought it’s probably about time to introduce ourselves as co-editors of what has become …
FISTFULS OF TRUTH AND HEART: a few words from the blokes who look after this joint
Now that Verity La is up and running, and 2010 is careering to its end, we thought it’s probably about time to introduce ourselves as co-editors of what has become …
The Funeral (Emmett Stinson)
Delicacy has never been my particular strength, but, for all that, I don’t see how it can be said that the incident at the funeral was entirely my fault. I …
DEATH HAG: an interview with Kathy Charles
ALEC PATRIC I was walking through a provincial French town to see a famous cathedral. Within the glass pastry cabinets were dazed bees, flitting around from one cake to another, …