Good Neighbours

There’s a massage table in the backyard, next door. It’s white and narrow and the headrest is folded up so when I walk past and catch a glimpse of it through the window it looks like a hospital bed, right there in the middle of the grass, ready for a patient. Scattered around it sit …

Egg

This is the story I read at the NYWF15 event 'Newcastle Stories'. We were taken on a tour of Newcastle Museum and given the task of selecting an item from the museum's collection to use as the basis for a piece of writing. This is fiction and any historical (or ornithological) accuracy is a happy accident.  The …