On Grief
Buddy died a week ago today. He was here for 12 years and now he is not. There is a silence where my dog should be. Gone forever, the...
Writing about poor mental health without oversharing, apologising, triggering or diminishing
How does someone do that? When Nietzsche said "And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into you," he was talking...
Nativity: A Short Story
The cows are mostly standing when I enter, shuffling hay from foot to foot, some inherited dance or ancestral trait handed down, like...
The Land In Winter by Andrew Miller
'She saw the flicker of horses in a field beside the track. Were they racing the train? Three, four horses, stretched into the gallop,...
The Coast Road by Alan Murrin
'She stared up at the ceiling, and tried to remember what she had wished for just seconds ago. But it had left her; all sensible thought...