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James Sizer
Feb 12, 20216 min read
A Fox's Luck
The fox emerged from the forest to the edge of a large field, examining the stumps for his stockpile. The area had changed somewhat in...
Iain Hoey
Feb 12, 20211 min read
i am a hundred billion lightyears away from achieving any of my goals
i like to wish on stars because stars are dead things that burned out before i first saw them which i believe to be a fitting allegory...
Iain Hoey
Feb 12, 20211 min read
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i hope that i am awake when all of reality shrinks back down into an infinitesimal grain of salt i would like to experience how it feels...
J.C. Findlay
Feb 12, 20211 min read
Plea for the Weary Traveller
You have seen everything to see. Everyone you have loved is gone. How lonely are you? Please tell me. You watch and wait, anticipate the...
Rebecca Stevenson
Feb 12, 20212 min read
I Have A Boat
Her name is Margo I will get through this. I know I will. I will not be defeated by mere water. Into the boat, its small and white with a...
Mhairi McNeil
Feb 12, 20211 min read
25.3.06
Quand j’étais jeune I wanted to die I was drowning I just didn’t know it yet. But you swam in (Maybe one day you’ll teach me how) And...
Matthew Glassford
Feb 12, 20212 min read
Counter Culture, 1967
Through the gate “The aunts are in.” “Oh thank FUCK, now we don’t have to talk to her as much.” Up the path “Is the doorbell not working?...
Scott Malcolm Patterson
Feb 12, 20218 min read
An Island on the River
Grandfather sits on the deep velvet seat, his plastic hand rested on the tabletop. He watches the land pass them by through the window....
Kate Hadley-Boyd
Feb 12, 20212 min read
Living by the Law (Extract)
My palms became sweaty, and my head felt too heavy for my body. As she whipped her hair and fixed her make-up, I saw her veins, and the...
Janina Samuels
Feb 12, 20211 min read
Overthinking
I sit and wonder who I am And where I have come from I sit and wonder who I am And wonder where I‘ll go. I sit and wonder who I am And...
Nicola Law
Feb 12, 20214 min read
Copper Wishes
To an outsider, it looked unremarkable, but the villagers had always known the truth. It had started with a prayer for love and precious...
Louise Drennan
Feb 12, 20212 min read
82 Candles
Through the gate “The aunts are in.” “Oh thank FUCK, now we don’t have to talk to her as much.” Up the path “Is the doorbell not working?...
Chloe Connelly
Feb 12, 20214 min read
Life Is Fast
John stepped onto the train. He watched other passengers as they put their belongings away and chose their seats. He breathed in -...
Hayley Burrell
Feb 12, 20211 min read
Rainbow Baby
Rainbow Baby* For Eliza-Rae, our own little ray of sunshine I often worried I couldn’t love you ‘cause you weren’t mine. I hadn’t seen...
David M Graham and Fiona Robertson
Feb 12, 20216 min read
The Brew of Hope
Jack awoke with start and a thumping headache. He found himself laid out on the street. He had either been the victim of a horrendous...
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