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Short stories

Short Story3:AM Magazine20266 min read

Protocol for a First Date

Wear clothes. And other instructions for a first date - or is it more than a date?

Short StoryStrange Horizons202120 min read

Blood We Cannot Wash Away

Every time she was about to gut a fish, she first whacked the fish's head with the side of the knife blade to stun it. She said it was less cruel that way. Then she sliced their throat in between the gills.

Short StoryIsland20217 min read

An August for my July Mother

My mother would like a man who didn't let his supplements expire. A man who looked after himself so that he could look after her. She would approve of how he was heating his dinner in a bowl covered with a plate. She'd often said this minimises the radiation in food.

Short StoryMascara Literary Review20197 min read

Things I Used to Believe

Winner of the 2018 Deborah Cass Prize

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