Kaala Paani by Mandira Pattnaik Bakru can’t sleep because his father can’t because his mother can’t, so he turns on the bed rags and watches the rain through the open window, rain so insistent it doubles up to cover for…
BackStory: Five Questions with Struan Gow
BackStory: Five Questions with Struan Gow Author of RRS Discovery What inspired you to write ‘RRS Discovery’? The RRS Discovery holds a special place in my heart, as I grew up in Dundee, where it is currently displayed. It is…
RRS Discovery
by Struan Gow RRS Discovery: She cannot glimpse the sea. She cannot feel it wrap around her hull—salt within the wood, burning hot to cold warping her skin. She cannot hear its rhythm like she cannot hear her heart. They…
BackStory: Five Questions with Joyce Bingham
BackStory: Five Questions with Joyce Bingham Author of The Inheritance What inspired you to write ‘The Inheritance’? I was given a prompt to write about entering a room at a ghost story workshop. I found I was writing about a…
The Inheritance
The Inheritance by Joyce Bingham I have never been alone in this room. The heavy door closes behind me, the rest of the house hidden from sight and I from them. My footsteps falter. I look down at my feet…