“I loved you the first moment I set eyes on you,” a woman at a table behind me whispers desperately. Her partner, a woman, nods, raking fingers through her greasy blonde hair. She looks exhausted. The two of them are clutching onto each other’s arms to avoid sliding off their chairs.
Cliff McNish, “Stone Lions”
Cliff McNish’s middle-grade fantasy novel The Doomspell is translated into 26 languages, and his ghost novel Breathe was voted by The Schools Network of British Librarians as one of the top adult and children’s novels of all time.
Amongst other places, his adult stories and poetry have appeared in Nightjar Press, Stand, Confingo, Ink Sweat & Tears, The Literary Hatchet and The Interpreter’s House.
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