My story, Vegetative Parenthood, is now up on Flashshot. It'll be on the last ten stories page for the next ten days.
1. I have slightly stiff muscles from the previous day's yoga.
2. A gentle pling, pling, pling outside the window. I think it must be some unseen windchimes moving as the rain disturbs the still cool air. It's not. The rain is falling on to my metal watering can.
3. This potato has been in the oven a very long time. It's properly cooked through: the flesh is fluffy and white, and the skin is crisp, caramelised and specked with black.
Cold remedy, simultaneously and delivery.
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