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Michael Aidoo
Jun 25, 20211 min read
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...
Anna Gosig
Feb 13, 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...
Rebecca Stevenson
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...
J.C. Findlay
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...
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...
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?...
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...
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?...
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...
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