This story is one of the March Writing Challenge entries chosen to be a featured story. Nothing lovely could come of this particular shadow. Settled …
Trip to Arran by Maria Sledmere
There are these pictures which exist on my phone like postage stamps, each one waiting for its destination. We took the early morning ferry, watching …
Gift of a Spear Thistle by Maria Sledmere
She picked for him the folkloric stem of a common spear thistle, magenta-headed and bristling her fingers as she held out the flower to the …
Saving a Life: Anorexia and the Blogging Community by Maria Sledmere
You know that way that Facebook uses some complex algorithm to determine what news appears in your feed? Recently, it just so happened to be …