In our classroom there are tall wooden tables and we sit on high stools. Our stools have red, blue and yellow plastic seats, vacuum formed to fit our behinds, and sometimes the rivets on the side come loose because we get bored and fiddle with them, and someone falls through and gets stuck and their [...]
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Short Story / Gallery Text: ‘Robotics’
I fell in love with you when I saw you dancing. Your towering, skinny tallness; the glossiness of your just-shaved jaw; your hands in awkward fists punching the air and out to the sides, you were marking territory and counting time. You always danced in the same spot, a little to the left of the [...]
Short Story: ‘Flowers’
In the centre of a single iris are blue veins, never straight, never repeated, never the same thickness all the way down. She knew this because she had been drawing them day after day. She traced their lines into her notebook, carefully measuring tiny angles, tiny distances, minute creases with her fingers and eyes. The [...]
