Separations by Sudha Balagopal
Nina finds her six-year-old twins in a tangle of skinny limbs on the same bed. Today, they’ll go into separate classrooms.
Forgotten by Jo Davies
He’d been under the stairs for years, forgotten and neglected. This wasn’t what his family had envisaged when they’d sold him.
Bone Deep by Anita Goveas
No-one’s sure what going to happen next. Today, its ‘acids and bases’. They’ve dipped litmus paper into milk and ketchup and written down the results.
The Mechanics of Reincarnation by C.E. Shue
But the woman seems so nice. She reminds Jenny of her mother, and her mother always taught her to be polite to old people.
The Boy with the Glass Eye by Stacy Trautwein Burns
The boy with the glass eye was back. His third time that week. He popped his eye from its socket, twiddled it between fingers the way a magician would a coin.