Stories tagged martha

Sand

22 views00 comments00 favs

He bounced over the beach, twirling and leaping as the sunlight warmed the breeze on his belly, like when he and Janie were six. His jacket slid down his arms into a Batman cape and he laughed as he skidded to a stop and crashed onto his back, mouth open and eyes…

Sand

381381 views1919 comments88 favs

He bounced over the beach, twirling and leaping as sunlight warmed the breeze on his belly, like when he and Janie were six.

The Next Step

440440 views1111 comments55 favs

She can’t think of anything worse.

Old Men's Faces

881881 views1313 comments77 favs

She waits, and before long her eyes open and slowly focus on the wall. By the time he has finished, she has deciphered five old men's faces hiding...

Ciara's Cloud

397397 views99 comments77 favs

Ciara feels the movement grow within her like a balance that she dare not trust because despite her parents' fury, Frankie's flight and rancid words spewed from tight‑lipped mouths, her baby lives.

EIGHTY-EIGHT

503503 views1616 comments1111 favs

... and as she babbled on about her first kiss and Auntie Jean being Dad’s real mum, she realised that things you can’t prove can be more intimate than things that are true.

no biscuits

6060 views44 comments22 favs

he’ll scream, you gotta ignore that and give it anyway. it’s his nan.

The Cat's Pajamas

8888 views1717 comments77 favs

He'd call me Farrah to get a rise.