Let’s say dad didn’t beat you because you back-chatted and wore your skirt too short, and you didn’t sneak out to meet Peter, then peck like a bird at our bedroom window at midnight smelling of cask wine and boy....
Green to Gray
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Belinda Rowe
Belinda Rowe is an emerging short fiction writer and English teacher. Born in Aotearoa, she now lives in Walyalup (Fremantle), Western Australia. She has words published by Gone Lawn, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Ghost Parachute, Lost Balloon & Fictive Dream. She is a SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellow for 2025.