The Bird of Space - Will Cox

Fiction, 40 pages.
ISBN: 9780994225108

‘Why did we move here?’ Laura had asked.

Because she didn’t like the machines, her mother had explained. She hated the noises, and the powerlines. She couldn’t cope with the city, Laura surmised later. The people, the light, the noise. Laura had liked the powerlines, and the trains, and the persistent background hum, and the superior television reception.

There were other things too, Maureen had said, but she wouldn’t go into too much detail. Things that you can’t see, that are in the air. But they weren’t here, Maureen said. Laura imagined insects, tiny like iron filings.

Something like that, Maureen had said, and then reconsidered: but not really.

Will Cox is an ex-insurance man and call centre operator and
frequent writer for publications like Broadsheet, The Big Issue,
The Lifted Brow, Catalyst, Verge and visible ink, and a sometime editor for visible ink. He writes fiction of the absurd and non-fiction of the mundane. He also runs Casuals Network Press.