My stories 2012

A selection of my stories

Cherry

Metro

It’s the kind of end-of-summer day that makes me hurt inside my heart and my head. Bright blue sky, shot through with the thin trail of a plane’s vapour.

Expecting

An awkward encounter

The things that happened that summer

I discovered cheese with garlic in it. I suffered a lot of heartburn. I wondered why you were nicer to our friend’s cat than you had been to me lately.

Wait

The best part of any subway journey is the other travellers. I love to watch the different ways they pass the time.

Stuff

How do you end up with nothing? It’s not as hard as you might think. It’s surprisingly easy, in fact. Well, it was for me.

Metro 2

She stands on the station platform on a chilly autumn morning, pulling her jade, woollen coat more closely around her for warmth.