Anyway, do you remember Karen? Well, I bumped into her at yoga and she told me she had the same problem with her wife and told me about this marriage consultant called Fina Gord. She's expensive, but her methods are said to be really effective. Apparently, I just need to leave him to cry. That way Continue Reading
Devolution: Birth in 2073.
Fria and Hadies: The Ice & Fire Fria stands in the threshold to the kitchens, a bowl of fresh melon slices in her hand, scowling. She hates how these entitled girls order her around and she is very much enjoying telling the kitchen staff how annoying this one is, sending her off on wild Continue Reading
Devolution: Birth in 2073
The Great Queue Greater than the sum of its parts, the Great Queues have a life of their own. They have evolved, over time, growing and changing; their own ecosystems developing. People join and people leave, but their monstrous presence, snaking through the cities of Britain, never change. Continue Reading
Birth in 2073: Episode 11. Demeter Reaches Down Into The Depths
A bead of perspiration runs down Persphone's temple. Stray hairs have escaped her high pony tail and are stuck to her face. She is half sitting, half lying in the huge hospital birthing-bed, mauve hospital gown twisted around her body. Fria the Birthnurse tuts and sighs. Every time this one writhes Continue Reading
Birth in 2073: Crone Wisdom: Derisa Visits The Northside
Derisa looks very smart today, walking along a street in the Uber-Capitalist part of town; an area she would never usually be able to venture into without being stopped by the Capitalist Cops. She's wearing a dress of fine spun silk, the colour of angry clouds, that touches her old body in all the Continue Reading
Birth in 2073: Persephone Meets Haidies
This extract has a fair dues warning. If you feel it might be too difficult to read about birth trauma, lack of consent and assault, even in fictionised form, don't read on. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Walter sits in the Continue Reading
Birth in 2073: Malina’s Selkie And The Little Flat Cake
Malina felt the hot, wet child between her breasts wriggle and lift its head away from her sternum. Looking down, she meets her baby's gaze for the first time. With eyes as huge and dark as the depths of the sea, curls of wet, black hair stuck down in seaweed strands and ears as delicate and Continue Reading
Birth in 2073: Persephone Enters The Underworld
Walter awakens before this wife this morning. He can feel her soft breath on the nape of his neck and her bump squashed up against the small of his back. He holds his breath, feeling the unmistakable movement of his daughter, stretching and squirming inside her mother. The movement wakes Persephone Continue Reading
Persephone Visits The Taramco Arcadia
"Welcome to the Taramco Arcadia", says the sign above the huge glass doors at the entrance to the hospital. The font is informal, yet classy, conjuring the atmosphere of a 5 star hotel rather than a hospital. Persephone steps through the doors as they slide silently open before her and is greeted by Continue Reading
Birth In The Year 2073: Alicia and The Municipal Birth House
Alicia slips out of her jeans and t-shirt and pulls on the green birthnurse uniform, corporate logo emblazoned in large yellow letters across her breast: 'MegaMaternity Inc'. She stows her clothes and bag in the locker, walks out of the staff room and down the corridor to her clinic room and picks Continue Reading