Threads of shame run through our family like veins of gold within a rock
and every so often one of us will crack, then chisel out a piece,
weighing the spoils on the kitchen scales,
then selling it to the highest bidder.

The currency of siblings. Glittering, rare and cold.

Rachel Canwell is an author who, having grown up in the Fens, has lived and worked in Cumbria for over twenty years. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies. Her collection of flash fiction Oh I do like to be was published in 2022 and her novella-in-flash Magpie Moon in 2023. Paper Sisters, her first novel is out now with Northodox.