22 sticking any into her mouth. Her throat was closed over. In fact, her whole body had shut down. That evening, she slipped away from her parents to her bed to read her new Geography text book from cover to cover with her thighs tensed against each other. She googled ‘Coastal Erosion’ with one finger pressed between her legs. A pastel-painted cottage crashed piecemeal onto foaming rocks in time with her first ever spasming shudders. RUE BALDRY’s short stories have previously appeared in The First Line, Pif, The Incubator, Mslexia, The Honest Ulsterman and The Mighty Line. She lives in York, UK, and has a BA in English Literature from York University, and an MA in Creative Writing from Leeds University. She was the 2017 Bridge Award Emerging Writer and a 2015/16 Jerwood/Arvon mentee.
The Nottingham Review - Issue 14 | August 2019
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