is in the details. She pictures him there, leering like a drunken lech at the bar, sizing her up the way a cuckoo eyes a nest. She scoots her chair so far back from the table that it’s an island drifting apart from an archipelago. Her sanitiser-parched hands reach towards her glass as she ponders […]
Charlotte Murray
Charlotte Murray is a Creative Future Writers’ Award winner and won the Prole Laureate Poetry Competition 2024. She has been published in various magazines and anthologies, including Propel and Green Ink. She is a member of Hive Poetry Collective. Twitter: @charlouwriter.