Issue 1 - Weekly Showcase 3
Wherein we highlight pieces you might have missed!
It’s time for another of our weekly showcases of our contributors’ work from Issue 1.
This week, we’re highlighting pieces from:
Catherine O’Brien
Nancy Wheaton
Emma Philips
June Faraday
It has been lovely and surprising this morning to revisit these writers’ pieces, and to remember how delighted we were when we first read them.
We hope you will appreciate them as much as we do!
Not His Time
The dad is splayed on the couch wearing a scornful expression. He is thinking that his wife’s voice has a piercing quality not dissimilar to that possessed by Percy, his childhood pet parrot. He is also thinking that she is lucky that he is not like his friend Bill who is brewing a possible extra-marital affair.
Hiroko’s Soul is Trapped in a Teacup
After the atom bomb, people said you could see souls etched into walls. “Your body,” Hiroko’s mother told her, “is concrete, finite, but your soul is fluid and eternal.” Hiroko remembers the Obon festival when she’d asked her mother how they’d know if their ancestor’s souls had returned, and she’d said it would be obvious, a…
Waking Hours
The coyotes laugh at us, roaming in the distance, because they know the quail have already flown over the fence lines at the first sight of the truck and the smell of gunpowder. My vest and jacket are too big, hanging loose over my frame. The cold air burns in my lungs. My friend is old and wiry with a permanent bend t…