‘You swing up the final step as the bus lurches a corner, sprinkling rain from your coat and from your sorry excuse of an umbrella. Faces turn, taking in your broken spokes, your breathlessness. The faces are mostly clustered in pairs. Gazes grab at you, dismiss you…’
I was very happy to have my tiny fiction ‘On the top deck of the 36’ included alongside many brilliant flashes in the celebratory downpour leading up to National Flash Fiction Day 2015. You can find out more about the project, and read the piece in its entirety here…