Nutshell

Nutshell

But lately, as I track my mother’s shifting relation to her crime, I’ve remembered rumours of a new dispensation in the matter of blue and pink. Be careful what you wish for. Here’s a new politics in university life. This digression may seem unimportant, but I intend...
No One Belongs Here More Than You

No One Belongs Here More Than You

The Shared Patio Vincent was on the shared patio. I’ll tell you about this patio. It is shared. If you look at it you will think it is only Helena and Vincent’s patio, because it begins at their back door and there is a fence around it. But when I moved in...
Such A Pretty Little Picture

Such A Pretty Little Picture

Adelaide Wheelock’s friends – and she had many of them – said of her that there was no nonsense about her. They and she regarded it as a compliment. Sister, the Wheelocks’ five-year-old daughter, played quietly in the gravel path that divided...