Trip to Arran by Maria Sledmere

There are these pictures which exist on my phone like postage stamps, each one waiting for its destination. We took the early morning ferry, watching behind the silver wake, its twin possibilities of listening to our thoughtless words and a song like wind chimes sprinkling the things we said with a certain glister—which I would […]

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The Selfie Quandary

Shopping carts accidentally hit one another; people are busy-bees peering at their grocery lists, randomly searching the rows they should head to. Machines at the counters click and do their brainy calculations. The man at the baker’s corner is busy expertly wrapping loaves of bread. Somewhere around the corner, the smell of roasted coffee tempts […]

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