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October 2008

Maata

The hand swept up two lumps of the brownest sugar she had seen for years. Rich darkness dropped like plums into her coffee cup without the faintest splash. You have… Read More »Maata

Ice

The laces baffled her and for once she wished for Ida. Such a challenge would have raised her spirits, but today she was alone.  The dull grey ice lay across… Read More »Ice

Alfie 3

Katherine had used her stick all that autumn and the men in light blue trousers burning fires and bending in the smoke seemed part of that slow time. She had… Read More »Alfie 3

Alfie 2

She could sit here, hidden behind her needles and think vaguely, like a stroll around some neglected country maze, all turnings and brief  hopes without any direction or triumph. If she… Read More »Alfie 2

Alfie

She was knitting for a boy she called Alfie. It was not something she had intended but the sleeves were now long enough  to stretch over the boy’s slender wrists.… Read More »Alfie