One of the reasons we move so much is that we look at the communities … when we moved to Devon, there was a community of creative people there already that we joined and there […]
Ep. 8 | Kirsty Logan
I do use made-up words in my fiction, peppered in amongst the English … for example, ‘gracekeeper’ is not a word … I just thought it sounded nice and had good connections with what I […]
Red Rock, by Alessandro Pozzolo
I sat on the raw wood bench outside the hut. The sun had yet to show from behind the rugged peaks, and the whole big mass of Mount Cevedale towered over me. Jagged peaks and […]
On the Road, by Alicia J. Rouverol
On the Road to Ormskirk I find pavement I have driven before in another state, across a border, across an ocean that divided me from some other place, where I spoke to people in a […]
Making Macarons in Paris, by Isobel Kay
A Short, Sweet Lesson in French-Muslim History ‘Parfait, Alice!’ Our instructor Guillaume, a French pastry chef, claps his hands in rapturous satisfaction. My twelve-year-old daughter carries on whisking the ganache, hiding as best she can behind […]
Symbiosis, by Anne Cleasby
Sleet turned to hail as the sky darkened into evening. An occasional streetlight still functioned, flickering with a dull orange glow, but Tiffany was grateful when the last working lamp disappeared behind the car, and […]
From Here, by John McAuliffe
The view from here is the border: the lake, close-up, is vertical. Not so much water as law and order. The word for it might disappear, the road run through its invisible wall. The view […]
Keeping Up the Training, by Alisha and the Duck
Trains. They are still the love of our Japanese life! Since the duck and I take trains pretty regularly now, we’ve had lots of opportunities to make mistakes, and learn from them, and to assemble […]
THE WANDERING BARD 