Farewell to 2014
We asked contributors to gorse nos. 1 and 2 for their favourite reads of the year.
Europe, in Winter
By Niven Govinden.
He remembers roaming the forest one afternoon, and chasing a dog away from a tray of leftovers on a picnic table. Though he still recalls the taste of the meat; scraps on a chicken leg, still wet with the dog’s saliva, the overwhelming memory is one of relief: temporarily sating the cramps in his stomach; that an hour would follow when he would no longer have to think about food.