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20 sth
Writing by Niamh Melvin. Illustration by Polly Burnay. These are the words of an almost 20 something my life flashing by unknown and...
Nov 1, 20201 min read


A Snow Globe World: Lockdown’s Lessons on Family Dynamics
Writing by Olivia Humphrey. Illustration by Josie Berry. The enforcement of lockdown throughout the UK in March of this year saw...
Sep 9, 20203 min read


The Windup Conversationalist
Writing by Dan Percival. Illustration from Unsplash. Five days: one hundred and twenty hours, seven thousand two hundred minutes, four...
Sep 9, 20203 min read


A Positive Test
Writing by Will Rogan, Illustration by Josie Berry In early March, when the world fell apart, it took my year abroad with it. I was...
Sep 8, 20202 min read


Summer Rain
Written by Grace Callaghan I sat, me with you, and watched the hot drops of a hot summer fall. ‘I like watching the rain, do you?’ I’d...
Apr 4, 20201 min read


Repathing the midnight path to freedom
Written by Beth Davison I will stay awake until the faces in the walls start screaming, until the paint bleeds into fractured memories of...
Apr 4, 20201 min read
Extracts From My Diary, Inspired by Yours
Written by Albertine Clarke He sent me extracts from his diary. At the age where I now find myself, He walked through sage plants in the...
Apr 3, 20201 min read


The Heart-Eater
Written by Albertine Clarke Had I known that he was a heart-eater, I would not be lying upon this table Covered in damp towels, to soak...
Apr 3, 20201 min read
Living is Fear
Writing: Rosie Barry Driving home, Michelle was scared. She knew exactly what of- the why’s and the when’s of the moment, but...
Mar 15, 20206 min read


The Trials and Tribulations of Trichotillomania
Writing: Jo Higgs Another spouting sees my skin call out for a territorially defined follicle drought. Just two hairs tamely testifying...
Mar 15, 20201 min read


APPLES DON’T GROW ON TREES, YOU KNOW.
Writing: Polly Burnay I once shrieked this in a moment of pure fury at my sister. She had thrown away an apple core, which – yellow,...
Mar 15, 20206 min read
‘Killing and Dying’
Writing: Albertine Clarke On the seventy-seventh day of our trip, I noticed that Jason was trying to kill me. There was nothing that...
Mar 15, 20205 min read
'Adam'
Writing - Charley Rose Jones The ghost of the man that I once knew visited me today. I was at work, halfway through making a coffee...
Mar 15, 20204 min read


Fear
Writing - Becky Bishop-Ashton Illustration - Yizhi Liu Time seems to have abated Its endless plod For a brief instant, and I am...
Mar 15, 20202 min read


The Desert
Writing: Albertine Clarke The landscape within which you chose to build our house was not my first choice. Robbed of nutrients by the...
Jan 17, 20205 min read


‘It Should Be Announced that Metal Can Burn’
Writing: Lucie Vovk It was small and unassuming, yet when the building burned down, Mother searched frantically through the rubble, her...
May 22, 20195 min read


'Juxtapositions'
Writing: Vaishnavi Ramu Illustration: Paola Valentina When I stepped onto what would be a nine hour flight from Amsterdam to Kilimanjaro,...
May 22, 20194 min read


'Blue-Tack Stains'
Writing: Jess Cowie Illustration: Isi Williams Yesterday a photo fell From the blue-tacked, bric-a-brac Collage I’d stuck beside my bed...
May 22, 20191 min read


'Goldfish'
Writing: Lucie Vovk Illustration: Abbie Featherstone Cities are forgetful creatures: They inhale lovers and exhale street corners On...
May 22, 20192 min read


A poem for myself, age 12, sat by herself in the toilet after her period bled through her white tutu
Writing: Phoebe McGowan Illustration: Hazel Laing You were stood in the wings, gelled back bun and static electric nerves, waiting for...
Mar 24, 20192 min read
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