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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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,...
Rattlecap Writers
- Dec 18, 2020
- 2 min
Grieving in isolation
Writing by Annabel Wilde. Illustration by Abigail Featherstone. Why does grief feel worse right now? I was never prepared to experience...
Rattlecap Writers
- Dec 18, 2020
- 2 min
8 months
Writing by Hannah Rothmann. Illustration by Isi Williams. I left Edinburgh as spring was slowly seeping into the bones of the city,...
Rattlecap Writers
- Dec 18, 2020
- 1 min
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...
Rattlecap Writers
- Nov 1, 2020
- 3 min
The Cost of Transition
Writing by Justine White. Illustration by Justine White. Content Warning: suicide, gender dysphoria Distraught, I sit against my radiator...
Rattlecap Writers
- Nov 1, 2020
- 2 min
In Dialogue with Myself
Writing by Anonymous. Illustration by Paola Valentina. Content Warning: explicit descriptions of sexual assault, rape, the aftermath,...
Rattlecap Writers
- Nov 1, 2020
- 1 min
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...
Rattlecap Writers
- Nov 1, 2020
- 2 min
Whistleblower, Speak
Writing by Molly Herbert. Illustration by Beth Morton. Eagle Eyes stares from my bedroom window, curtains winding, transparent in the...
Rattlecap Writers
- Nov 1, 2020
- 8 min
Revelations of Divine Love
Writing by Jessica Cave. Below are found expects from a diary of Julian after and during her sickness. She titled her life in Chapters...
Rattlecap Writers
- Nov 1, 2020
- 1 min
Vague attempts at self-care
Writing by Alice Fischer. Illustration by Zoë Dutton. Ply the sheet off my face Gel serum for youth I am Bateman. Cocky in appearance But...
Rattlecap Writers
- Nov 1, 2020
- 1 min
Borderline
Writing by Claire Shankie. Illustration by Claire Shankie. Where should I go? Where should I stay? Do I belong? I’ll leave anyway. Start?...
Rattlecap Writers
- Nov 1, 2020
- 1 min
Outcrop
Writing by Harry Clough. Illustration by Josie Berry. Two lovers land on a swan’s nesting place, Oscillating dragons on paper wings And...
Rattlecap Writers
- Nov 1, 2020
- 1 min
What's the use?
Writing by Magnus McDowall. Illustration by Polly Burnay. What’s the use? Of a stroll through pock-marked streets, Where each door is...
Rattlecap Writers
- Nov 1, 2020
- 1 min
Violins
Writing by Albertine Clarke. Illustration by Antonia Popescu. His grandfather made violins. He says it taught him patience, Craft: the...
Rattlecap Writers
- Nov 1, 2020
- 2 min
A Half-Eaten Breakfast in Caithness
Writing by Molly MacLean. Illustration by Celeste John-Wood. The sudden flush of dawn had stirred something vile. Collapsed upon the bed...
Rattlecap Writers
- Nov 1, 2020
- 2 min
Holes like a sieve
Writing by Ellen Willott. Illustration by Carlos Finlay. When I was little, I decided that I would always remember a moment. It wasn't a...
Rattlecap Writers
- Nov 1, 2020
- 1 min
An Obstacle
Writing by Amelia Morgan. Illustration by Fran Wise. There’s a small chicken and she’s sitting in the way; the doorways not big enough...
Rattlecap Writers
- Nov 1, 2020
- 1 min
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...
Rattlecap Writers
- Sep 9, 2020
- 3 min
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...