The visitors were always wet when they arrived, whatever the weather. Water oozed from their hair and clothes and each day brought different faces. She always welcomed them, studied each one carefully, hoped for signs of recognition. So far, they’d all been strangers. She didn’t mind them coming. It kept her tethered to a conviction this was all a transition, a temporary absence.
She always asked the visitors inside, but they never moved beyond the entrance hall. They hovered with the front door open behind them and joined their voices in a cacophony of names and numbers before they left again.
Issue 6
PELAGIC GRIP
Anniken Blomberg is a Norwegian born writer and translator living in Edinburgh. Her fiction has been published in various places and she has performed at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.