My aunts had names like sugar and spice Maybe they started in a doll’s house,where the world was rainbows and unicorns.Their lives changed colours,but their names stayed the same. Pinky stayed Pinkythrough the heartache of two divorcesand several betrayals,the palette her name evokedstayed Hello Kittyeven when the skies in her life turned grey. The cancer…

        Cakes by Carol   It brought a strange comfort; somewhere in the folds of fondant she felt she had stowed away dreams she had held on to for too long, dreams she was too tired to carry any further. She was happiest when the show was on, in worlds lit up briefly…

        Arachnid: Flight After Deluge   The waters have risen; the signal has sounded in our skeletons of minimal composition. An instinct of age-old urgency has stirred our colonies into motion. Time has come for the next rung of survival, quest for the next habitable frontier – former field, farm, meadow, now stubble,…