It’s so hot out, yet I’m still so cold. Numb to the fingers and toes. Frost-bitten while the heat makes waves in the air all around. Look left. Look right. Pebbles as far as the eye can see. I’m just sitting on the beach, wishing for waves. Wishing for even a drop of the oceanContinue reading “Frost In Summer”
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Bleed like a Man
“Bleed Like a Man” is a short piece of non-fiction flash by Jessica Barratt, reflecting on gender and blood culture.
The Thought Experiments
The Thought Experiments are a recent writing exercise I created for myself. It is a practice in introspective writing, using the senses as a guide. I completely recommend using the following experiments as prompts for your writing – enjoy! Experiment #1 Typing what comes to me when I close my eyes. First I close myContinue reading “The Thought Experiments”
Bait and Twitch
There’s dirt, and there’s grime, and then there’s whatever lives beneath the cracked-claw fingernails of Arnold K. Sprouse, the fat man who everyone was sure had been a child at some point, who forever twitched or itched at the boils beneath his skin. Worse yet, Arnold was the kind of scrounging sort of thing thatContinue reading “Bait and Twitch”
Lita
We’d already been going there for weeks. And we’d learned a few things about that old house, the tall thin one with too many stories it seemed. Like how we all felt safer in one room with all the doors closed, or that it was better to light three candles than one. Or that if meContinue reading “Lita”
Jessica Barratt 