Issue 3 also includes:

• Rich with longing is Crooked Grocer, Mark Anthony Jarman’s cinematic account of lost love and the taking of irreversible choices.

• Bella Braxton’s How To Do The Job locates the human being inside menial work, in a piece characterised by humour and pathos. 

• In Sons of Neptune, Andrew Menard revisits a past that encompasses his oceanographer father, Darwin, Jacques Cousteau and crates of peanut butter.

• Emily Holt’s Restless Creature weaves a love story with film criticism in a rich, beautifully told piece that spans continents and time.

• In Notes From A Czechoslovakian Machine Shop, René Georg Vasicek captures a moment in the life of an emigré with a surprising past. 

• Christopher Jenning’s Starting Salary draws a sad, comical subversion of the American dream in a piece populated with outrageous characters.  

• Plus! An exclusive piece of short creative non-fiction, At The Ambassadors, by our interviewee, poet George Szirtes.

And more: Kimmo Rosenthal debuts our new feature Ekphrasis with his piece Helvetia, in which he illuminates and responds to the work of Gerald Murnane; and responding to the subject of seasonal affective disorder, Amy Davies brings us an uplifting photo essay from her adopted home of Penarth. We have our usual up-front feast of flash non-fiction delivered this month by Michael Fischer, Margaret O’Brien, Christopher Linforth and Steve Cushman.