Mari Phillips

Mari writes mostly flash fiction with occasional forays into poetry. Other pieces of flash have been published in Café Lit,101 Words and Paragraph Planet. She lives in Leeds and loves to sing and travel – sometimes at the same time.

  • Summer Frock

    Image by Jörg Peter from Pixabay Gilly only had two summer frocks. One for school and one for ‘best’. She preferred the latter, the colour of candyfloss with puffed sleeves and a bow, but only wore it when she was sent to Sunday school. The former, blue gingham with two trimmed pockets, had to be worn on Saturday…

  • Blossom

    I sat in the huddle with the others around the desk. Bleary-eyed and mind elsewhere, I nearly missed the ward sister’s instruction.  “… and staff nurse will supervise when you dress the wound.” Her voice was clipped. Perfunctory. My pulse throbbed in my neck and my tongue felt like sandpaper. I hadn’t cared for Blossom…