Stirling University

It thrusts into your chest, leaching the marrow from your ribs. Fingers chapped and scratching in a deathly chill. Your heartbeats become...

A: Let's go out Marie Let's dance Marie, along the narrow paths of the woods, Marie Let's dance, Marie? In the free wind Let's dance...

Strange. The world wasn’t always this way. When I was little, the world was full of rolling hills and mossy-dark forests. It had clear...

Today is the day, The first time in many months I feel it. It radiates through me - A tidal wave of warmth My pale pigment now kissed...

We have no power. We are specks of dust in the southerly simoom. She carries us, rents us from neighbours never to be reunited. Do you...

Following the smell, the bear eventually broke out to the edge of a clearing. The river was running fast, spraying off the opposite side....

My dearest reader(s). Please forgive the mess, I had little time before I called you. This will be the last collection of words I will...

Before the existence of time there was nothing. No light, no dark – not even the faintest glimmer of the life every breathing creature...

Sometimes a choice wasn’t all it was made out to be. It was a talisman of supposed freedom and a chain of forced responsibility, all...

Winter was his favourite time of the year. It was beautiful and gorgeous, stunning and glorious; from the way the light shone off the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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?...

Grandfather sits on the deep velvet seat, his plastic hand rested on the tabletop. He watches the land pass them by through the window....

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...

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...