Tasha had taken the cold journey from home in her stride. She examined every passersby closely: the women with their head scarves in shades of mud; the men’s faces hidden by Party caps, their hunched, overcoated shoulders. She watched the trams and buses jostle through the city, along Gorky Street. The child hardly spoke, her […]

via Jane Dougherty’s Words and pictures poetry challenge: The Whisperer — Word Shamble