‘A Gathering Storm’ is the fifth novel by UEA tutor Rachel Hore and is published by Simon & Schuster this week. Rachel (pictured) worked in
publishing for many years and teaches the Publishing module that leads to the
production of the annual…
Archives for 2011
Phone World
Sheila had promised a judge that if he let her out on parole she would get a decent job.
Mobile Home
I arrived at the entrance to the trailer park and checked the address Dad had given me over the phone. This was it – 555 Clayton Road. The numbers were printed on a shiny black plaque, much like what you’d see on a headstone in a cemetery. The plaque was attached to one of two […]
Artistic Empathy
I am not the empathiser I had always hoped to be!’ I cry out, woeful, desperate, my negligee saturated in lipstick, ink stains and bile.
Cooking and Eating the Past: Reflections on Food and Memories
I grew up in a place where everything – and I mean absolutely everything, from welcoming a new baby into the world to saying goodbye to someone going into the other world – is marked by some sort of eating.
Nocturne
You find a scratched vinyl in the basement,
its label is nothing but a yellowed strip –
I watch you touch the needle to its surface,
your eyes narrowing
Tannin
A bitter chemical released by some African thorn trees to make their leaves less appealing to browsing animals.
Red Bucket Heart
from Metamorphosis – a partial sequence written in the voice of a young woman during her time at a live-in eating disorder clinic.
The Crash
And was it wrong for me to talk to you about the future as if we would both be there?
The Rise and Fall of Lawnchair Larry
In the ‘Inspiration’, a patio chair tied to helium-filled weather balloons, Larry Walters inadvertently rose to a height of 15,000 feet and drifted into federal airspace before crash-landing into power lines, gaining overnight fame in the process. He later committed suicide in Angeles National Forest. The Inspiration scuds me through emptiness. Silence volleys up on the thermals, bears […]