Josie Turner

Josie lives in Hertfordshire and works in London. She has had fiction and poetry published in The North, Magma, The Frogmore Papers and Mslexia. In 2013 she was placed third in Mslexia’s annual short story competition and first in the Welsh Poetry competition.

  • A Disappearance

    I remember everything about that night. Everything. I remember the waiter laughing at us when we told him our plan. “You want to explore?” he repeated. He caught his mate’s arm and they discussed us in a rapid colloquial dialect I couldn’t follow, smiling and shaking their heads. “What’s he saying?” hissed Phoebe and I…

  • Clinging On

    I knew from the first day – from the moment the removal men left – that I wanted to leave. I closed the door behind them, and took a deep breath. I turned to face the hallway. Mess. Muddle. Cardboard boxes and plastic tubs of junk stacked to my waist. Every step of the stairs…