Short fiction published in Painted Words 2017. Shane Worrell At the back of an antique shop where marbles were sold, two for ten million dollars, Junior lay in silence. The old man’s bedroom, small, cramped and altogether unbefitting of someone of Junior’s character, was separated from the shop by only a paper-thin wooden panel. Junior …
Category: Reflections
Granny Flat
SHE had seemed old, sure. Ancient. A relic. But I didn’t think she was gonna die. Oh no. Had I known she was close, I wouldn’t have rented her the granny flat in my backyard when her son – calling from the safety of 500 bloody miles away – begged me for it. I’d wanted …
Local News Today
From a long-lost satirical news blog I once ran: Rebuilt school named after arsonist The Jude Louey Parker Secondary School will reopen tomorrow, 12 months after it was ravaged by fire.Every building was destroyed last year when former student Jude Louey Parker set fire to it to “get revenge on the teachers”.It was announced in …
