by Here Comes Everyone | Dec 30, 2018
All SoulsRachel Burns Collecting leaves for the compost heap, and flat-capped mushrooms on your knees in the wet grass. Stripping elderberries from branches at the roadside to make red ruby wine that will bubble in tall plastic vats in the airing cupboard. Time to...
by Here Comes Everyone | Dec 30, 2018
The Rite of OdobenaAdam Marks It was a dark, cloudy night: perfect! A group was gathered in a corner of Old St Pancras Churchyard. They were not a regular congregation. They were men and women of various ages, pepper-pot faces, ordinarily dressed, mostly; a true...
by Here Comes Everyone | Dec 29, 2018
Watching The SatanistsGerard McKeown ‘We bought that goat with our own money and can sacrifice it to our Lord Satan if we feel like it.’Her screams land over the roof as I press the ignition. Something has died, or will die – a goat? Air clears through the pump,...
by Here Comes Everyone | Dec 29, 2018
Deco DecorumJanina Aza Karpinska As a young man he developed a taste forart deco artefacts – attracted by theirgeometric designs; curvaceous furniture,and dressers that displayed, to good effect,cups and saucers, and bric-a-brac, collecting as much as he couldfrom...
by Here Comes Everyone | Dec 21, 2018
No Flowers by RequestAnne Goodwin Had my highlights not been in need of attention, I might never have known of Mr. Blenkinsop’s demise. I don’t normally patronise the local rag but I was marooned at the hairdresser’s and some other woman had nabbed last month’s...
