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Portuguese Idylls by Hanna Carter
“Maybe we just heard someone talking in a room,” I suggest to Keith. We sit on the edge of the wall fountain, soaked to our thighs. I have Sun-warmed figs for lunch. “It couldn’t have been ghosts, could it?” I add. The grapevine canopy clings to the fountain’s terracotta overhang, and snakes down the blue…
Short Story Award
Short Story Award 2015 (Prize money kindly donated by Lady Egan) First prize (£250): The Naked Mile by Caleb Azumah Nelson Adam lay on his bed, next to his wife, his body fraught with some emotion under the heading of ‘despair’. His long frame appeared to have shrunk overnight, his knees drawn halfway up to…
The Girl at the Bus Stop
“The Girl at the Bus Stop” – Original Poem by Emily Steainstreet – Performed by Lauren Sheraton
Out of Traffic and into Tranquillity by Emma Freelove
If you have OCD, don’t glance up at the electricity pylons. The thick mass of tangled wires is a good analogy for the animated streets of Ho Chi Minh. Vietnam’s largest city throbs with life from the 7 million souls who live there and the marginally smaller number of mopeds on the roads. Crossing the…
Palairos, Greece by Emily Thompson
A sailing boat is the perfect platform for people-watching. A crowd of Greeks sit outside a bar drinking ouzo, the harbourmaster strides up and down the dock, and beautifully bronzed foreigners lounge on a yacht further along the pontoon. Across the Ionian Sea, islands appear through the haze created by the brilliant sun. But closer…