Vern’s daughter had played softball in high school and been quite a star. Baseball had been her passion, though, and she’d never been able to play it. Back then it had been a boy’s game, which had angered her no end. So girls can’t hit a ball unless it’s the size of a grapefruit, she'd... Continue Reading →
He came up to me at the café, clutching a cup, his grey goatee neatly clipped. 'Excuse me,' he said, an apologetic look on his half-familiar face. I stirred substitute sugar into my skinny soy latte, rattling the cup. 'Hi. How can I help?' By then, though, his gaze had shifted to the wall behind... Continue Reading →
Our next example comes from the twenty-first century, when this technology was still in its infancy. The story has been pieced together from data recovered from an electronic device preserved in a fortuitous rockfall. Maria was a young woman living in a part of the world then known as Australia. Viewed at the time as... Continue Reading →
‘The question,’ someone said, ‘is not whether we believe in them but whether they believe in us.’ The young bloke with the shaved head and the over-sized singlet looked up from the footpath where he was crouched. ‘Come again?’ ‘Love to,’ said the old bloke standing behind him, his big hairy hands resting on the... Continue Reading →
Flash Wounds 