I bury my dead in this garden. Over there, under the cabbage roses. They haunt me through the day. At night, they sleep in the shadow of a fig tree with branches as wide as an archangel’s wings. I used to sit there and...
Hunger
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Gillian OShaughnessy
Gillian O'Shaughnessy is a short fiction writer from Fremantle in Western Australia. She has work in Jellyfish Review, Splonk, SmokeLong, and the inaugural Fractured Lit Anthology, among others. You can find her online @GillOshaughness or gillianoshaughnessy.com
Into the White
The wolves are out again. I can hear them, their hollow wails in the pines, slicing through a storm of snow. It’s my turn to get the wood in. It was my turn last night and the night before and the night before that,...
Salt City Runaway
A sheep has escaped from the abattoir. It’s loose on the railway line that runs along the coast to the harbor and they’ve stopped the trains. You hear on the radio, the activists are out with placards, Meat is Murder,...