The Nottingham Review - Issue 14 | August 2019

13 ‘I hope you’re sorry. Susie’s mother says you left hers more than an hour ago. Now get indoors.’

She stood to one side pointing at the front door, but after a moment pushed past us to the gate and scanned the street. When she turned back to us, she already seemed smaller.

‘Where’s Josie?’

PATRICIA NEWBERY’s prose and poetry has been published in several reviews, including Ambit. She’s a translator and editor and lives in Egypt.