by Euan | Aug 22, 2023 | issue-21
Jack Young LBD September showers. Static storms. Listening to Grace Jones’ ‘Walking in the Rain’. Doing what I’m doing, feeling out of place. Walking out of the rain, into charity shop shelter. Hair soaked, newly bleached blonde, exploding from the storm. My thin...
by Euan | Aug 13, 2023 | issue-21
Vicki Jarrett Fitting I was looking for something for the office, something that implied control but not freak. Not that I believe a pair of shoes can reveal anything about anyone’s personality. To get by, especially at work, I have to play the game, or at least...
by Euan | Jul 19, 2023 | issue-21
Richard Strachan The Desert Swimmer His hands were shaking. She had felt it, even half-asleep; the hard pitch to the side, Donnell’s compensating turn, the sense of gravity realigning itself around them. They had nearly flipped. She stared at the road that dragged...
by Euan | Jun 25, 2023 | issue-21
Structo talks to Vicki Jarrett Vicki Jarrett is a short story writer and novelist from Edinburgh. Since her first completed story, written while she was still working in a chippy, won second prize in the Macallan/Scotland on Sunday short story competition, she has...
by Euan | Jun 7, 2023 | issue-21
Marko Bobetić And what about the church chandelier? The parish priest gasped for breath as he clambered up the stairs, his saddlebags swaying from one side of the staircase to the other. Behind him trailed the church warden, a dry old man, both hands gripped tight...
