From Chafic LaRochelle . Reading this I had two moments I isolate: 1.) The corridor scene where he follows the baby’s voice to the ice machine is such a keeper. 2.) ‘Two small teeth like white oars’ made me audibly laugh. Those moments hit hardest and I keep coming back to them throughout the piece.

A stranded firefighter unravels in a hotel room while his daughter grows up through a screen.- Is nothing I could ever write, or consider, so I loved how much insight this grants me into a plight I am unfamiliar with by interlinking my native tongue-mythology-with the boots on the ground.