We met how people like to say they meet.
It was sudden, by chance. We didn’t swipe, text, set a date.
I knew his face before his name.
A short story commissioned for BBC Radio 4. Aired April 2021. Available to listen to here.
Leila was skilled at speaking nothing. Her responses were like reflections in a shop window, cast back but not identical.
A short story commissioned for The Fence, published in May 2021. Available to read here.
there is no doubt, here it is, on the sign: Prawn chowder
prawn chowder
(words already unfamiliar but growing more distant as I say them in my head for a third time)
Shortlisted for The White Review’s 2018 short story competition. Available to read here.
Book contributions
Alexandre da Cunha, Sunset, Sunrise, Sunset
(October 2022, Kerber Verlag)
Various writings, including Rebecca Watson’s ‘That Pink’.
I remember laughter
is that right? would there be laughter?
Blunt Instrument
(2021, limited edition for Book Works)
Art by Mary Ramsden, and creative works by various contributors including an untitled work by Rebecca Watson.
He spilled some soil as he moved with shaking hands
to cover the urn in the ground