880 words 3 min 31 sec reading time I met Storm Fairy so long ago that I have only fragments of memory. I hope you will forgive this abrupt telling to clear the way to where I stand today. One minute, I was on the promenade in Tramore. Watching white foaming waves...
823 words 3 min 17 sec reading time James sat down on the stone walkway just beneath the city centre bridge. He had been unceremoniously removed from the nearby shopping centre a few minutes earlier and had nowhere else to go that was safe at least. It was a Saturday,...
471 words 1 min 53 sec reading time I remember the first time my Gran mentioned them, the Memory Men. She mumbled the exact words over and over again - the Memory Men sing, the Memory Men play, the Memory Men stay. They only come at night, she whispered in my ear so...
437 words 1 min 45 sec reading time I am Sidhe*. I am Eternal.We choose to live as non-Eternals for seventy years lest we forget. It is the day of my transformation. Today, it will begin and end. For seventy years, I have looked through their eyes and listened through...
635 words 2 min 32 sec reading time I sank into my seat on the bus, breathing so loudly I could hear every muscle popping in my chest. I promised myself yesterday, and come to think of it, the day before that and every day since last Wednesday, that I wouldn't run for...