Alison Wassell

Alison is a short story writer, cat mother, insomniac, worrier. She has been previously published in random places.

  • Jumper

    Grandma used her knitting needles as weapons, viciously stabbing the air as she catalogued my shortcomings. Her fingers pulled the yarn as tight as a hangman’s noose. Dorothy From Next Door listened and sadly shook her head. Grandma’s jumpers had buttons on the shoulders, implying my head was larger than other children’s or my dressing…