"Rip it up (and start again)" published by Frank Mask

Really pleased to announce that “Frank Mask”, one of the most interesting literary websites in the UK, has published my short story “rip it up and start again”. A strange little story set in sunny Fremantle, where a man and woman from different cultures try (and fail?) to work each other out... 

Looking up from a story I’m trying to open I peer into a stranger’s sunny-wrapped face: twenties, dark, pretty. I shrug, the blush spilling across my pasty flesh accentuated by the awesome sunlight hammering on textured silver. There are empty tables all around the coffee shops of the Cappuccino Strip. I stiffen at her presence, her dress of pale flowers...