Fiction

Bullet

Bullet

Watch five and a half millimeters of NATO Standard Issue part hair, skin and skull. See soft cerebellum liquefy and hollow point steel fragment. Witness shards of metal and bone as they spin through cortex and colliculus and wonder at the bullet’s rotational shock...

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The Number Crunchers

The Number Crunchers

I’m in the pub when Shakti gets grabbed. A South London library crawls with yellow jackets, and Shakti getting muscled into the back of a car. No need for sound on rolling tv news. Six weeks ago I had a job, a pension and a five year plan. Then Shakti steps out of a...

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Pablo’s Egg

Pablo’s Egg

Story by Si Mitchell. Illustrations by the super-talented Jake Pond. Pablo does not move until he can no longer smell the tobacco and beer. He knows silence in the city doesn’t mean safety, just that the current dangers are still unknown. Marta is not moving....

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