White drags the reader, as if by the collar, through moments in time and space that reflect and refract each other, both literally and thematically.
Rick White
RICK WHITE is a fiction writer from Manchester, UK whose work can be found in many fine lit journals including Trampset, Milk Candy Review, and Lunate. Rick’s debut collection Talking to Ghosts at Parties is available now via Storgy Books.
“Your Eyes In the Darkness”
In the Kingdom of Toads & Bones
by Rick White
– CONTENT WARNING: Animal Abuse –
In the mornings — before school — there was always tea. China cups, whistling kettle, hot metal stove. Warm smell of butane, blackened matches, crunch of buttered things. Now there is only steam. It pools on every surface and spit-trickles down black windowpanes, shiny tears.