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Stories From The Bosom of An African Woman
The stories were written all over her body in broken skin With blood as ink Day and night no longer meant a thing It was one round to the...
Michael Aidoo
Jun 25, 20211 min read


Let's go out Marie
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...
Anna Gosig
Feb 13, 20211 min read


Today is the Day
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...
Rebecca Stevenson
Feb 13, 20211 min read


On Swimming
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...
J.C. Findlay
Feb 13, 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


particles
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...
Iain Hoey
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...
J.C. Findlay
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...
Mhairi McNeil
Feb 12, 20211 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?...
Matthew Glassford
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...
Kate Hadley-Boyd
Feb 12, 20212 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...
Janina Samuels
Feb 12, 20211 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?...
Louise Drennan
Feb 12, 20212 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...
Hayley Burrell
Feb 12, 20211 min read
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