Third Prize, 2018 Literal Latte Fiction Award.
That winter, on our island, a flu arrived by fishing trawler; it was carried up the stairs of a cottage not far from our own on the hands of a visiting uncle, and soon all the Tillett daughters caught it: their faces flushed with fever, their lungs filling with fluid….
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Readers’ Comments
- On "Living Remains": Usually I quit reading in the middle of a story. I couldn't lift my eyes from the screen until I read the last word on... – hoolahoopp
Jan 27 - On "The Enormous Typewriter": Wow. This is very good. I hear Pirsig struggling with Phaedrus. Props. – oldironnow
Jan 19 - On "Wild Horses": I love your first sentence. Having worked in hospitals for years it is very refreshing to imagine the flu as a passenger; real tangible alive. – Avigail Halberg
Jan 14 - On "Love Trouble": great story... funny and weirdly erotic... – kathleen seltzer
Dec 11 - On "My Own Personal Mr. Crabtree": I forgot to add, many thanks for a brilliant read. – Chris
Dec 08 - On "My Own Personal Mr. Crabtree": I've lived in Clyst St Mary for nearly 40 years. The pond is still there, though it looks very overgrown. I've always wanted to try... – Chris
Dec 08 - On "The Mysterious Crotch-Grabbing Handshake: Hard Lessons in Vietnam": I laughed very hard at this post. I am vietnamese and it is a cultural thing. Its not sexual and is only done to the... – Don
Dec 06 - On "C'mon Pigs of Western Civilization
Eat More Grease.": i'm really about to fail this whole IOC thing – A Student
Dec 05 - On "Dog Trail": Very moving. I think any dog lover can relate... I'll love my Filip a little more tonight after reading this. – Rob B.
Oct 01
- On "Living Remains": Usually I quit reading in the middle of a story. I couldn't lift my eyes from the screen until I read the last word on... – hoolahoopp
