There is a stillness at Judith’s house that has never existed at home. It is made up of the creaking of an old house, and the wind whistling down the chimney. Occasionally the gas fire ticks loudly to itself. In the garden nine bird feeders clash together in the blowing gale. The television has been muted, and [...]

Robert? I ask. I have been looking for him for what feels like years. I am fazed by the house I find myself in the parlour of. It is small and narrow, and I feel like an uncomfortably enlarged Alice. I want to leave, but stopping me is this overpowering need to find Robert. He [...]

You’re the lucky one, so I’ve been told. Skipping over the moor, rocks and moss flashing past under your cons, a glint of setting sun reflecting from your eyes. You’re lucky and you know it, clapping and stamping so the whole world hears, though there’s no-one here listening other than the thrush in the [...]

The sky through the glass hung heavily with the promise of minus temperatures, bare trees silhouetted blackly against the stony grey. Next time I looked up, the world had flared up in vivid orange flames, and bled pink into plane trails and rain clouds. I stayed for a while after everyone else had gone, even [...]

He crawls back occasionally, and every time he does her face lights up. They respectively declare their undying love for each other, she gives him a blow job underneath the desk of the computer room which he films, and they head off to the grotty multi-story car park of the cinema to have furtive sex [...]