'Home Remedies' / 'When This Shall Be in Bloom'
Writing by Hattie Atkins. Illustration from Unsplash. 'Home Remedies' I mourn the mornings: body folded like pastry, unfurling in the...
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Apr 27, 20213 min read
I just came here to make friends and get a degree…
Writing by Ayesha Dawson. Illustration by Antonia Popescu. Content warning: contains discussion of sexual assault. My all-girl school did...
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'Witchcraft’s Due Kapital Punishment'
Writing by Daniel Irvine. Illustration from Unsplash. Industrial bells ring out to summon private property pyre. “Burn the chaotic...
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'wood ears'
Writing by Paola Lindo. Illustration from Unsplash. are common, so soft and easy to pick apart so i pressed and picked them. bloody arms...
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'Misconnection'
Writing by Emma Lake. Illustration by Polly Burnay.
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'Untitled'
Writing by Victoria MacKintosh. Illustration by Polly Burnay. Matthew wanted to be a plant. I have been aching to type these words. Of...
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'Matchstick house'
Writing by Magnus McDowall. Illustration by Polly Burnay. Huckleberry drifters In an upturned home Of sodden matchsticks Scurried from...
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'shotta'
Writing by Billy Chapman. Illustration from Unsplash. Phone book i’m Frustrated with these names We do not speak All forgotten to the...
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'Images of a room and its exterior'
Writing by Will Staveley. Illustration from Unsplash. I waking up Horizontal in a foetal bed Blanketed as sand-time in snow; Life...
Feb 26, 20212 min read
'It's not Kevin'
Writing by Lara Slyce. Illustration by Polly Burnay. The morning after the accident I’m sitting in my windowsill. Cross legged, robed in...
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'Finding a purpose in life becomes ever so important' - recovery as a survivor of domestic abuse
Writing by Ece Kucuk. Illustration by Polly Burnay. There comes a point in time when you’ve reached a clearing in your road to recovery...
Feb 26, 20211 min read
'Reminiscing Our Present'
Writing by Claire Shankie. Illustration by Polly Burnay. How must we recover from this? This hatred, this apathy. Where is humanity? This...
Dec 18, 20206 min read
country bumpkin
Writing by Levi Mitchell. Illustration by Caitlin Osfield. The Cairngorm scenery makes me ache. It’s so stunningly still, filled with...
Dec 18, 20204 min read
A Solitary Sort of Soreness
Writing by Ali Gavin. Illustration by Sarah Dobbs. There is a point at which words turn to muscle memory. A point at which the tongue,...
Dec 18, 20202 min read
Grieving in isolation
Writing by Annabel Wilde. Illustration by Abigail Featherstone. Why does grief feel worse right now? I was never prepared to experience...
Dec 18, 20202 min read
8 months
Writing by Hannah Rothmann. Illustration by Isi Williams. I left Edinburgh as spring was slowly seeping into the bones of the city,...
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Broken Vision
Writing by Harry Clough. Illustration by Antonia Popescu. ‘I’m sorry, what’s your name?’ Hunched like a hedgerow oak she sits In a...
Nov 1, 20203 min read
The Cost of Transition
Writing by Justine White. Illustration by Justine White. Content Warning: suicide, gender dysphoria Distraught, I sit against my radiator...
Nov 1, 20202 min read
In Dialogue with Myself
Writing by Anonymous. Illustration by Paola Valentina. Content Warning: explicit descriptions of sexual assault, rape, the aftermath,...
Nov 1, 20201 min read
the simple pleasure of looking up at the stars while walking on the pavement
Writing by Paola Valentina. Illustration by Zoë Dutton. i recall only some regrets, and sigh cigarettes knowing these cobblestones guard...
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