by Mileva Anastasiadou

“Gina looks me in the eye, touches my hand, but I pull away, what on earth are you doing, I ask, and she looks disappointed, lies back on the sofa, love me if you dare, she says…”

by Mileva Anastasiadou

“I sit next to your ghost and we exchange glances and words in silence because ghosts can’t speak.”

by Mileva Anastasiadou

“Hope we have time to catch up before the end of times I have much to say lost my snowball my joy my mind after you left…”

by Mileva Anastasiadou

“My brother lives in the past, but he comes often to visit us in the present. He never stays for long and, even when he’s around, he can’t sit and talk, as if he’s forgotten that people can speak without words.”

by Mileva Anastasiadou

“All we do now is pretend it’s 536, and we hold on to each other and we bow our heads and we wait and we hope that we’ll live to see the sunshine again and that the light wins before the credits roll.”