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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...
Skye Macleod
Feb 13, 20211 min read
Whiteout
It thrusts into your chest, leaching the marrow from your ribs. Fingers chapped and scratching in a deathly chill. Your heartbeats become...
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...
Janina Samuels
Feb 13, 20213 min read
Strange
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...
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...
James Sizer
Feb 13, 20215 min read
Lord of the Forest
Following the smell, the bear eventually broke out to the edge of a clearing. The river was running fast, spraying off the opposite side....
David M Graham
Feb 13, 202110 min read
To Whom it May Concern
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...
Lauren Robertson
Feb 12, 20216 min read
The Woman Before Time
Before the existence of time there was nothing. No light, no dark – not even the faintest glimmer of the life every breathing creature...
Lauren Robertson
Feb 12, 20213 min read
The Speckled Road
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...
Lauren Robertson
Feb 12, 20215 min read
Winter's Light
Winter was his favourite time of the year. It was beautiful and gorgeous, stunning and glorious; from the way the light shone off the...
Lauren Robertson
Feb 12, 20216 min read
Beyond An Angel's Grace
Prologue It had been a very long time since Grace had felt peace. It was so rare that even the notion of it became a long-forgotten...
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
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...
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....
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