From the recycler: If the phrase ‘It’s grim up North’ resonates with you, think what it might have been like 40+ years ago without colour TV, a motorway, mobile phone, and internet communication to bring other ways of life to us. ‘A Tale of Two Sixties’ Zouch Magazine & Miscellany, October 2011. Continue reading ‘A Tale of Two Sixties’
‘Jesus loves her, Jesus loves her, Jesus loves the murdering bitch.’ Emmy chuckles to herself in that private way only people whose heads are somewhere else can do. She hunches up on the bed and grabs her knees; pulling them up to her chin, and hugging them like babies. ‘Pretty boys,’ she says; and bites into her knee cap. Cut A Long Story, February 13th, 2015 Continue reading ‘The Justice Box’
Terminus’, The room stinks; pinned-shut curtains, asleep on their makeshift wire, silently breathe in odours of dead food and trap them there. 275 words. In Fine Linen journal, January 2015. This is a subscription magazine. Continue reading ‘Terminus’
From the recycler: ‘Arthur’s Stone’ Full of Crow – October 2011. “She thinks the woman thinks she is harassed and that she can identify with that. She thinks the woman does not know the meaning of the word.” A snapshot of life with a man who has autism. 709 words Continue reading ‘Arthur’s Stone’
Five Things That Are True and Six That Are Not’ Lascaux Flash competition 17/03/14; 249 words Continue reading Five Things That Are True and Six That Are Not – audio
‘Frozen Fireworks’, Readwave, February 6th, 2014. The last real day is bright and brilliant with a sky full of clotted clouds that tumble along like cream puffs in the thickening air. When the storms break, they cast scaled and feathered flying things down onto the sand, and the sand begins to swim like wet concrete around them. 292 words Continue reading Frozen Fireworks – audio
Again, Shoshana articulately presents the elements of a complex situation in terms we can all understand. http://shoshanakessock.com/2015/01/08/a-freedom-worth-fighting-for/ Continue reading ‘A freedom worth fighting for’ by Shoshana Kessock
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Back in 2011, the offices of a French satirical magazine called Charlie Hebdo was firebombed. The picture above is of the magazine’s editor, Stéphane Charbonnier aka Charb, holding the reason for the attack: a cartoon they decided to print that depicted the Prophet Muhammad. By the laws of Islam, it is religiously prohibited to create a likeness of the Prophet in any way, and so the cartoon was considered sacrilege. The cartoonist, as well as any associated with the project, received death threats. The offices were fire bombed. And yet the cartoon was published anyway. It… Continue reading A Freedom Worth Fighting For
“On a frozen beach, brown waves thundering under a gritty pier and a grittier sky, God got his own back and I burst, sparkling, into life.” First published by Full of Crow, October 2012. 699 words image (c)conboy-hill 2014 Continue reading ‘The Wild Rose and the China Doll’ – audio
‘People didn’t lose their souls, they had them confiscated for sinning. So what sin did you have to commit to become a dance-floor donkey?’ 249 words. Continue reading ‘Doomcha Doof’ – audio
Dr Suzanne Conboy-Hill 