Sky Academy Arts Scholarships Application
Mr Devereux walked out on his wife of 20 years that morning, not just because she had developed a sudden passion for weaponry. Wearing a bowler hat, as he had for the last 20 years, it wasn’t difficult to step out into the soggy streets and hitch a bus to Hastings. “Y’all having a nice day?” he said to the harassed woman sat next to him who held a toddler on her lap. The little boy kept reaching for Mr Devereux’s hat, but when he took it off and handed it to him he started to cry. The woman...
Longest Goodbye
Longest Goodbye
I was told it was a car crash. But at first Facebook told me different. Someone said you had passed away of natural causes, followed by dozens of comments. It seemed the whole world was sorry. Someone from Kenya who I was sure you had never known, posted a picture of an idyllic beach and the words RIP beneath it. People had posted pictures of you on nights out, luminous coloured drinks in your hand. You had brushed your hair recently on all of them. Robert telephoned me with a runny terror that transferred itself over the phone and...
Shampoo
Shampoo
You expertly boil tomatoes. It is a skill you have perfected since the age of eleven, when your mother first handed you the spoon. That glorious bubble of temperature and the steam floating in your gnarly curls. The slim man across the street curving his head to look through the window at the figures which evaporate so neatly now. Daddy somewhere, his head tight as his knuckles, tasting sweet tomato sauce plunging down his open shirt. And prising that window open, each time the bolt so stiff it hurts your fingers, aware of your mother washing the tomatoes so...
Genetics
Genetics