A mind-blowing wave crests over me. I can’t look away. A monster—15 metres high and over 100 long. I release the breath I hadn’t realised I’d been holding. Well, I never… Dazzling colours run its length: rich oranges and browns accentuated with streaks of black. I stand rooted to the spot. More than 2.7 billion […]
I’m not up for celebrating today, not without him. A knock at the door startles me. I open it to find a beautiful bouquet of yellow tulips. Impossible. The card reads: “Happy birthday, my love. Surprise! I made a call before I entered the pearly gates. P.S. No TV here, but I get to watch
The river stole and stole. First, my front yard. Then my steps and back yard. Most recently, my living room, kitchen and study. But still it wanted more. Swollen. Insatiable. Simba meowed loudly in my lap, anything but brave. I stroked his ginger fur. ‘How about we laugh in the face of danger?’ A gale
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Jeremy stroked a small leaf on the reddish-purple thing growing from my elbow. ‘That’s impossible.’ ‘That’s what my doctor and psychiatrist said, and my dentist.’ His brows pulled together. ‘Don’t ask. Oh, a surgeon too.’ ‘Thus me, a botanist. The surgeon didn’t want to cut it out?’ ‘No, something about the brachial artery.’ ‘It’s creeping
Her head on the counter, her body in the freezer. Not ideal. Probably should have kept them together, but her body was thawing and I couldn’t get her hair right. It didn’t look so hard in the pictures. I put the knife down. Would a comb be easier? Who really cares – she’ll be delicious
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