[ Digital Edition Available On Request | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Issue 38 of Neon begins with a world in which everyone has been swallowed by whales, and ends with a recurring nightmare story about a kitten. In between there are desert islands, floods and plagues, flings and wounds and Facebook, the possibility of…
Month: July 2014
The Death of the Motherless Kitten
I saw it from across the road, while waiting for the green man. It was mewling for its mother. Lost, I thought. Everybody, in their suits and ties and pencil skirts, turned to look, but they never slowed their strides. A mother and child might have stopped for a few seconds, passingly interested. I probably…
Déflorer
If you touch me once more,I will scream, mister.You know it’s not right. Hush. Your hand travels crisp sheets of my camp bed,finds my girly heart.Then down, pulls asidethe elastic and finds another heartbeneath a barely grown garden. Your hand rests there,as if exhausted by the journey. I open my legs to fitall of your…
The Time the Light Went Out
How did the Dark Age come? The power wound down. There’d been some temporary rationings but this time they’d been warned it was for good. Cookers lay barren, central heating stalled and kettles lacked the will to mash the tea; no candles left to burn, light chased the sun. Lids flipped, big-time; weird portents, false…
Poem in Which You Unfriend the Dead Girl
because what else were you supposed to dowait for her to check-in at the pearly gates just because she was your one cigarette per day that summer because she grinned like a slinkycould unbutton your jeans without breaking eye contact you’re supposed to wait – some sailor’sghost in your desk chair – the distant creeping…