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Rosie Garland

Rosie Garland Nursery Games

December 20, 2016 by PBQ

She hides in the thicket of shadows under the stairs, tucked behind the shabby hedge of old coats, the long-boned broom, the mop nesting its claws in a bucket. She bites her tongue, hooks fingernails into her palm. It hurts less than the end of bedtime stories. She wants to be as small as a […]

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Rosie Garland: Out of Water

December 20, 2016 by PBQ

That first time, he grinned. I slid my fingers into his mouth, unrolled the snail of his tongue, sucked it against my own. Now he mumbles excuses. When I reach for him he pulls back, gags at the salt slurp of my lips. He picks off my scales; calls them scabs. My bones ripple beneath […]

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Rosie Garland

December 19, 2016 by PBQ

Rosie Garland is a UK-based novelist, poet and singer with post-punk band The March Violets. With a passion for language nurtured by libraries, she started out in spoken word, garnering praise from Apples and Snakes as ‘one of the country’s finest performance poets’. Her award-winning short stories, poems and essays have been widely anthologised. She […]

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