Katie Piper is British and now lives in Australia with her son and her hubby. Her work has appeared in Reflex Fiction, The Cabinet of Heed, X-ray Literary Mag, Janus Literary, Ellipsis Zine, and Frazzled Lit. Katie was a 2020 Pushcart nominee. She was longlisted for The Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2021, the Bath Short Story Award in 2024 and 2025, and the Newcastle Short Story Award, also in 2025
I can see you clearly now you’re leaving — a child of the garden again, and yes, everything is better outside, and as you say, it always was this way; it always was. I drink tea while you paint the long legs of the...