An excerpt from a new story by Thomas Chadwick, published in the first Splice anthology.
Daniel Davis Wood talks to Thomas Chadwick, author of Above the Fat.
Daniel Davis Wood talks to Thomas Chadwick, author of Above the Fat.
David killed the Queen. It was nothing personal, he said. It was just politics. All he wanted was to make a political statement about the abuse of power in the country.
1997: Business boomed. Optimism was shooting up everywhere and bursting into flower. Music was jocular. Sport was effusive. Soon it would be possible to do the most wonderful things with computers.
His hand hovers above the hot fat — not so hot as to be spitting and scarring his skin, but warm; warm enough to cook something; warm enough to be tender; warm enough for an egg.
