“Petrichor” flash fiction – Reflex Fiction

I wake in Osaka and decide to walk. Past wood-paneled fences pattered with rain, down an alleyway flanked by emoji-coated construction vehicles…

“Chaz” flash fiction – AntipodeanSF issue 279

The fella down the road was the first to get a bunker. Chaz. Long hair, longer yarns if you made the mistake of docking eye contact…

Poetry for the Planet - Peach “Doubtless Sound” prose poem – Poetry for the Planet anthology

It’s been a hundred years since the last newspaper collapsed, and seventy since the civil war that sealed us in this living tomb…

The Cabinet of Heed

“Different” flash fiction – The Cabinet of Heed

She let me know early on I was not like the other kids. As a five-year-old, Snowball the class budgie comes home to every house but mine…

“Two Steps” flash fiction – Reflex Fiction

Two steps and he’d be out the door, intricately constructing a new family, shedding the old one like a dirty, sinful raincoat and laughing as the sun punctured the storm clouds…

“Akilter” flash fiction – Visible Ink #29 ‘The End’

The last journalist signed off from BBC radio at 2.30am London time. It was 11.30am here. Brett and I had his workmates over for Coronas and party pies…

“Bow and Bleekman” flash fiction – Tincture Journal, Issue 13

He stands on the corner of Bow and Bleekman. She drops her handbag and her life flows out like a secret unbidden. He stoops to pick up letters and lipsticks. She is breathless and grateful…