We have lunch in an abandoned restaurant. Tables of black wood with matching chairs, we eat mushrooms with berries and drink pond water. We use napkins and a tablecloth of moss. When we finish, a bird screeches, and I’m alone. The moon glows, hanging from our ceiling, surrounded by stars: a celestial chandelier. I walk off. The restaurant transforms into […]
There’s a summer camp where I’ve spent a whole life of which I have no recollection. We drive past it and I notice a police car. Mum pulls in, to try and see whats going on, for I was set to spend another summer of vacant memories. Half of the camp structures are closed off. We ask the officers what’s […]
‘You should be dead.’ I know because I was the last person to leave your funeral. I was the one you last spoke to. I was the one who killed you with that stone. *** Do you know how hard it is to be a twin? You share everything with them: Everything you own, for everything is hers, your identity, […]
There was someone in my life once who gave me a bouquet of sunflowers, and I took care of them day and night. They were their favourite flowers, so much that they had a dried one stitched onto their hand, its petals weaved into their veins and the stem tied around their wrist, their own version of a lucky charm, […]
There’s an annual gameshow where I’m from: temporary monarchs, where the winners get to rule our nation for one year. Once their time is up, they can sign up to play and try winning again. Dear mirror and reflection, why am I telling you this? You live here, I’m sure you know how it works. You’ve lived here forever, and […]