Month: November 2023

      10 shillings for a pair of stockings, that’s all she ever wanted.  Her trembling fingers fumble at the door to the past;  the present drops her memory—and she is no longer haunted.    Her 16-year-old hands could type and take notes in Pitman slightly slanted.  With a final glance back at pale…

Forget me not Last Saturday, a horticulturist at Oxley nursery told me forget me nots refuse to grow in sub-tropical Brisbane—their clusters of soft powder blue prefer to sprawl under other spring skies, he said and raised his hands in surrender. I was hoping to grow some on my balcony to keep things I remembered…