Team Building

When Marni had first started in Implementation she’d been excited that there was a…

The last biscuit

Lucy: Hi! John, isn’t it? Hi! The kettle’s just boiled. Are you having tea? Coffee? Can I pass you something?

The boomerang dish

Whenever she thought of her death, which she did often, she’d look around her beautiful room full of beautiful possessions…

Living alone

Bippity bip. “Don’t forget me”, sang the fridge, too chirpily given the circumstances. Despite its calls for attention, the milk…

Stormy Waters

We were feral. Our days were filled with adventures. While our mom worked, we’d slip out of the window, away from under the watchful…

Life: a guide

She was never one for reading the manual. Impatient, she would only ever scan the quick-start guides: filing heavy instructions…

A ship is safe in the harbour, but that’s not what ships are for

Act I

The treasure hunt

I stare at the photograph.

Holiday on the moon

“Remember that year when we went to the moon!”  
 “Oh god yeah when it rained ash…

PTSD

It was the dark that she dreaded. At night when she drifted off to sleep she saw the woods, she smelled the leaves and the moss, heard the birds’…