Fiction

“Amelia, get the fuck outta my way!” William slurred with a half-empty bottle of rum in his hand. He pushed Amelia against the wall of their tiny kitchen and stared at her; his alcohol drenched breath making the tendrils of hair that escaped her ponytail move around her face as if they too, were bracing […]

Gladys walks slowly across the road, carefully avoiding the puddles of rain along the way. The weather is just as grey as her mood. Her heart is heavy with too many burdens. She can barely feed her child and husband. They are behind on rent and Claudia, her daughter, needs new shoes. Choking back tears, […]

The Simpson’s greenhouse was a very beautiful place. Roses and Venus Flytraps were arranged in all colours and sizes. Tracy Simpson was at her happiest when she could wander among the flowers and look in awe at the amazing dimensions her flowers made. Her husband, Darrel, enjoyed watching his wife walk around the greenhouse wearing […]

Being a nurse in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts was easy. Being a nurse with borderline personality disorder was not that easy. For Angela, life at the hospital was filled with emotions and sights that made her insides twitch. To cope with these strange sensations she could not quite comprehend herself, she made a habit of silently […]

Max was just an ordinary 35-year-old, single man. There was nothing spectacular about him. He had an ordinary job in an ordinary town. He was very content at his stage of life. That was until the man in the black coat started following him. The office was in its usual Friday afternoon buzz. The weekend […]