There came a time when Death decided to take a husband. She was lonely. She knew many souls as they passed to their reward or punishment, but they were never hers. She wanted someone to be hers. She wanted company. There was a young man who spent many nights with her while he cared for…
The headphones—if you could call them that—arrived in a glossy white cardboard box she’d had to sign for. She positioned the box in the circle of artificial sunlight on her kitchen table and readied the camera on the tripod. Hair in place, teeth checked, nostrils clear, she smiled wide and pressed ‘Start Live Video.’ “Hello…
I want you to be happy. That’s what everybody says at the beginning, isn’t it? I believed you when you told me, and I said the same to you. And everybody really wants that, don’t they? Of course they do. But when I wanted to apprentice in witchcraft and hone my natural abilities, you brought…
The end of a long, lonely year has arrived. But no one realises it apart from me. To everyone else, it has been just another Monday. The world is frozen like a painting. Leaves hover in mid-air, stuttering towards the ground while the neighbour’s stride unwinds at a glacial pace. My watch is stuck at…
