Want

“What do you want?” “I want to chew on your bones // to go back to 2008 and stop her … More

Burnt Teaspoons

“Oi. What colour are my eyes?” Until that moment, I had deliberately avoided looking into his eyes. Eye contact is … More

1 I fill the void with three liters of cheap white wine and morph into a monster in a mini … More

How did we get here? Well, you saw a photograph of me in a magazine and said, “I have to know … More

1. I am standing on an upturned bin looking through the little barred window into the room that I was … More

You mix my medication into a pot of vanilla yoghurt and instruct me on how to eat. Open. Come on. … More

So we were at this house party and I was sitting in the kitchen sink drinking lukewarm vodka out of … More

I would enquire, would ask exactly how they all met, but all the members of this party are now dead. … More

I used to resent making my father cups of tea. “Why can’t you just make it yourself?” He’d just stare … More

Excerpt from History of Present Complaint by HLR (Close to the Bone, 2021). To read more, get a copy … More