Fiction Author: Joyce Bingham

Her hair sparkles with crystal droplets of rain as she offers her sacrifice, touching the golden toes of the bronze goddess as midnight chimes. At home Darren snores contentedly in their warm bed. She throws away the temperature charts, deletes the fertility App. Her fingers ache as she tucks bootees and bibs out of sight …

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The turrets loom large above us as we push up the smooth green mound of earth. I can feel under my feet the bones of our past humming with power, they pull at my breath. Stones once firm and strong have cascaded down the slope and lie like a giant’s rockery. Wild flowers grow in …

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