The Pool
Writing by Jessie Irvin Rose. Illustration Berenika Murray. She lies in the heat and watches him work, watches him sway the net through...
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Rattlecap Writers
- Feb 25
- 4 min
A Quick Trip to the Grocery Shop
Writing Isabela Caramico. Artwork by Rosa Rucola (soon to be found via @rucolasexternalbrain) A quick trip to the grocery shop. All I...
Rattlecap Writers
- Feb 25
- 2 min
Catharsis as Growth
Writing by Emily Tennant. Artwork by Yury Aleksanyan. Is catharsis necessarily a loud act? An uncontrollable, unexpected moment of...
Rattlecap Writers
- Feb 25
- 5 min
It Really Starts After the Funeral
Writing by Lola Weisselberg. Artwork by Leonie Hubert. She’s sitting by the door again. She’s always touching something, I’ve noticed;...
Rattlecap Writers
- Feb 25
- 1 min
Nosebleed
Writing Heather Sweeney. Artwork by Berenika Murray. When I pull it from the back of my throat It leaves a metallic savoury note Through...
Rattlecap Writers
- Feb 25
- 5 min
‘Be Glad and Rejoice with all your Heart’: Christian Catharsis as a Queer Woman
Writing by anonymous. Artwork by Cilla Sullivan. Christian worship is steeped in catharsis, acted out in rituals of purification and...
Rattlecap Writers
- Feb 25
- 4 min
On Asexuality
Writing by Sam Stevens. Artwork by Kate Granholm. I don’t eat meat. This has not always been easy for my peers to swallow. On school...
Rattlecap Writers
- Feb 25
- 2 min
Sandman
Writing by Michael Wu. Artwork by Yury Aleksanyan and Kate Granholm. The Sphinx White, death does finding with sand inks a tread...
Rattlecap Writers
- Dec 19, 2022
- 3 min
Beauty and the Beast through an aroace lens
Writing by Sue O'Hara. Artwork by Kate Granholm (@katesartthings on instagram) I never had an obsession with Disney princesses as a...
Rattlecap Writers
- Dec 19, 2022
- 1 min
Birth
Writing by Molly Reed. Artwork by Kate Granholm (@katesartthings on Instagram) It was springtime When I gave birth to the darkness....
Rattlecap Writers
- Dec 19, 2022
- 1 min
Burn
Writing by Michael Wu. Artwork by Yury Aleksanyan. Game is candles’ ivory floor And perturbed pains in my sick bed war For there little...
Rattlecap Writers
- Dec 19, 2022
- 7 min
No Such Things as Dreams
Writing by Michael Wu. Artwork by Yury Aleksanyan. The undergrad has tried telling the black crows, the tall crows in suits, “When I woke...
Rattlecap Writers
- Oct 22, 2022
- 5 min
The Sea as Queer Liminal Space
Writing by Jessie Irvin Rose. Artwork by Yizhi Liu. I am being held by the ocean. It’s September, and the last time I will go in until...
Rattlecap Writers
- Oct 22, 2022
- 6 min
The Voice
Writing by Myra Alawadhi. Artwork by Paola Valentina. “Bitch.” The club is packed to the brim and quintessentially rowdy, but his voice...
Rattlecap Writers
- Oct 22, 2022
- 3 min
In the Smoking Area
Writing by Cristina Rizzo. Artwork by Juliet Richards. “You ok?” He scares me. His voice hugged by the cushioned music from inside the...
Rattlecap Writers
- Oct 22, 2022
- 2 min
Selected Poems
Writing by Cristina Rizzo. Artwork by Paola Valentina. Santo Stefano in August Ma quanti bagni hai fatto? Tutti! The boy’s happy – a...
Rattlecap Writers
- Oct 22, 2022
- 2 min
Temptations, Temptations...
Writing by Lola Weisselberg. Artwork by Sarah Dobbs. Down through the sky He cast me, No question or hint of a care. Further and further...
Rattlecap Writers
- Oct 22, 2022
- 1 min
No Strings
Writing by Michael Wu. Artwork by Yury Aleksanyan. The first wild grass grows on silver feet of child enchanted by mother’s tales, smoke...
jwhite3478
- Jun 1, 2022
- 5 min
Cut Up Fruit
Writing by Kaja Kubičková. Illustration by Heather Baillie. When I got sick, I spent all my days lying in bed swaddled in blankets. My...
jwhite3478
- Jun 1, 2022
- 1 min
Coming soon
Writing by Kirsten Twigg. Illustration by Emily Donelly. Coming soon, Two words that sing a cruel lullaby to my youth. In them I used to...
jwhite3478
- Mar 3, 2022
- 2 min
Tea Time, Blue Beast, and Flowers in February
Writing by Clem Prime. Illustrations by Annie Whiteson. Tea Time Watching the mould grow in my tea Comforts me It means things Take their...
jwhite3478
- Mar 3, 2022
- 1 min
I think everyone's burnt out by fourth year
Writing by Justine White. Illustration by Annie Whiteson. I think everyone’s burnt out by fourth year your circle’s circumference closes...
jwhite3478
- Mar 3, 2022
- 1 min
the hysteric
Writing by Hannah Dove. Illustration by Claire Shankie. here it is. it is festering and ugly and nobody wants to touch it. here, come...
jwhite3478
- Mar 3, 2022
- 6 min
The Rough Draft
Writing by Lola Weisselberg. Illustration by Antonia Popescu. What the hell is that noise? Oh. Right. Alarm. Shut it off. Shut it off...
Rattlecap Writers
- Mar 3, 2022
- 2 min
Tasmanian devil/Taz
Writing by Daniel Delfs. Illustration Berenika Murray. When a heart beats against the borders of being An energy artificial or internal,...
Rattlecap Writers
- Jan 25, 2022
- 5 min
Together Underfoot
Writing by Eitan Orenstein. Illustration via Unsplash. The cage was old and mostly unused. It was used for some things, but not nearly as...
Rattlecap Writers
- Jan 25, 2022
- 1 min
Sea, Swallow Me
Writing by Justine White. Illustration by Annie Whiteson cw: suicide, OCD, depression On an autumn day I swim until an undercurrent drags...
Rattlecap Writers
- Jan 25, 2022
- 1 min
Armament
Writing by Hannah Burns. Illustration by Lucy Copeland-Tucker. Morphing, murmuring New flaps of skin form and fold over each other...
Rattlecap Writers
- Nov 25, 2021
- 4 min
A Love-song for Torpedoed Minds
Writing by Will Penkethman-Carr. Illustration by Annie Whiteson. The Queen is dead. The Queen is dead! But she’s not - see her rise out...
Rattlecap Writers
- Nov 25, 2021
- 8 min
Anastasia
Writing by Paul Aubé. Photograph by Mike Yukhtenko. Glorious fucking Icarus. One merely has to spread their arms wide and float above the...
Rattlecap Writers
- Nov 25, 2021
- 1 min
The Self-Help Book Says Don't Serve Two Masters
Writing by Jess Rush. Illustration by Bea Dessent.
Rattlecap Writers
- Sep 23, 2021
- 2 min
Thoughts of the sea from a pavement.
Writing by Magdalene Hoy. Photograph by Jeremy Bishop. And so it goes that he had finally died. For years I’d been ready, occupied. For...
Rattlecap Writers
- Sep 23, 2021
- 5 min
Serious Man (a Sartrean experiment)
Writing by Will Penkethman-Carr. Image via Unsplash. From an iron sky the wind cuts into protesting bodies; winter occupies April. The...
Rattlecap Writers
- Sep 23, 2021
- 2 min
Food Freedom
Writing by Holly Mackin. Illustration by Berenika Murray. TW - Eating Disorders, Dark Subject Matter It was on my mind 24/7, I was...
Rattlecap Writers
- Apr 27, 2021
- 6 min
'The electrified dreams of a trigger-happy channel-flicker'
Writing by Will Penkethman-Carr. Illustration by Phoebe McGowan. Greg Wallace comes to me in a dream. Come to me, Greg, come to me. We...
Rattlecap Writers
- Apr 27, 2021
- 5 min
'Vandalism Against Spring Flowers'
Writing by Maria Wrang-Rasmussen. Illustration from Unsplash. 1. Three short-stemmed daffodils. Looks like they were plucked, carried the...
Rattlecap Writers
- Apr 27, 2021
- 4 min
'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...
Rattlecap Writers
- Apr 27, 2021
- 3 min
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...
Rattlecap Writers
- Apr 27, 2021
- 1 min
'Witchcraft’s Due Kapital Punishment'
Writing by Daniel Irvine. Illustration from Unsplash. Industrial bells ring out to summon private property pyre. “Burn the chaotic...
Rattlecap Writers
- Apr 27, 2021
- 2 min
'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...
Rattlecap Writers
- Apr 27, 2021
- 1 min
'Misconnection'
Writing by Emma Lake. Illustration by Polly Burnay.
Rattlecap Writers
- Apr 27, 2021
- 7 min
'Untitled'
Writing by Victoria MacKintosh. Illustration by Polly Burnay. Matthew wanted to be a plant. I have been aching to type these words. Of...
Rattlecap Writers
- Apr 27, 2021
- 1 min
'Matchstick house'
Writing by Magnus McDowall. Illustration by Polly Burnay. Huckleberry drifters In an upturned home Of sodden matchsticks Scurried from...
Rattlecap Writers
- Apr 27, 2021
- 1 min
'shotta'
Writing by Billy Chapman. Illustration from Unsplash. Phone book i’m Frustrated with these names We do not speak All forgotten to the...
Rattlecap Writers
- Apr 27, 2021
- 2 min
'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...
Rattlecap Writers
- Feb 26, 2021
- 2 min
'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...
Rattlecap Writers
- Feb 26, 2021
- 2 min
'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...
Rattlecap Writers
- Feb 26, 2021
- 1 min
'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...
Rattlecap Writers
- Dec 18, 2020
- 6 min
country bumpkin
Writing by Levi Mitchell. Illustration by Caitlin Osfield. The Cairngorm scenery makes me ache. It’s so stunningly still, filled with...
Rattlecap Writers
- Dec 18, 2020
- 4 min
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,...
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