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Never to be yours

By Alex Brightsmith February 29, 2016 Leave a comment

“Dr Shaw?” His voice startled her, and her hand slipped. She swore softly and set the trowel aside. Here he came, blond curls and an earnest smile, the same boy she had met so long ago on the field of Bosworth. She had only been a post-grad then. He had been an uncertain appendage to […]

Strings

By Alex Brightsmith February 26, 2016 Leave a comment

John found her in the small attic where she kept her equipment, the painting propped in front of her. “I thought that had gone?” “They’ll not be taking this week.” But not, he noted, they can’t; she was honest even in her perks. He stepped behind her for a squarer view, but it didn’t recommend […]

A trick of the light

By Alex Brightsmith February 22, 2016 1 Comment

“Vanitas,” she said, with the irritability she had been trying to mask all afternoon finally breaking through, “is only supposed to include an intimation of mortality. There should be flowers, ‘n fruit, ‘n … stuff.” She finished with an airy wave of one elegant hand, her bubblegum persona firmly re-established, but she couldn’t recall the […]