SHORT STORY REVIEW: ‘EXERCISES IN CONTROL’ BY ANNABEL BANKS Review by Yasmina Floyer Publisher: Influx Press 112 pages RRP: £7.99 ISBN: 978-19103123476 Exercises in Control is a compe...
Tips for Surviving a Kidnapping, by Hannah Storm Attempt to stop it by escaping when it initially occurs You should have stopped it when it first began. But you did not. Not ...
A Gelato or Two, by Reshma Ruia My mother fell ill in Rome. We put it down to exhaustion. We had left India, abandoned the bone and flesh of our familiar world to begin a n...
Departure from the Motherland, by Linda Collins I’m making a pasta dish, something I did when I was a mother of a living child. It’s the first time I’ve cooked pasta since my daughter died...
‘James’s War’ by Amelie Rye (Age 8) The soldiers next to me are shivering in fear, I can hear their prayers of help. I can feel my locket with an old tattered photo of my famil...
‘A Truly Alien Encounter’ by Finn Champion (Age 11) One night, a giant, elliptical spaceship hovered over a sleepy village. The authorities were freaked out by the appearance of a silvery flyi...
‘Star, the Dancing Hero’ – by Scarlett Gregory (Age 8) Sneaking around the forest was a merciless, murderous beast. When the sun falls, she would gobble you up and rip the flesh from yo...
