Fool's gold
Writing by Isabela Caramico and illustration by Lucienne Saisselin. I believe if I didn’t enjoy soup so much, I would have accomplished...
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Rattlecap Writers
- Feb 29
- 5 min
In extremity, It asked a Crumb
Writing by Lola Weisselberg, artwork by Kate Granholm. Lucia leaves the house first thing in the morning and sees herself in the street,...
Rattlecap Writers
- Feb 29
- 2 min
Beardsu
Writing by Göksu Gündüzalp, artwork by Lou Vachez. water, leave yourself to me im crying near a river you’re crawling on me: you are...
Rattlecap Writers
- Feb 29
- 3 min
Merlin
Writing by Michael Wu, illustration by Yury Aleksanyan. The play is done A long day now I watch There is rain Drop, they too read lines...
Rattlecap Writers
- Feb 29
- 16 min
Teriyaki
Writing by Michael Wu, artwork by Elana Munasinghe. CAPTION: [That’s me in the picture. Not the one in the hat, that's Arthur. Look. The...
Rattlecap Writers
- Dec 5, 2023
- 4 min
Forgive Me, Mother, For I Have Sinned
Writing by Vivienne Gorgoova, artwork by Berenika Murray My mum would always say we were being punished. Every minor inconvenience our...
Rattlecap Writers
- Dec 5, 2023
- 4 min
Rosie smoked vogues
Writing by Caitlin Tambini, artwork by Lou Vachez. Rosie smoked Vogues. Nostalgic from a Parisian holiday aged 16, she bought a packet...
Rattlecap Writers
- Dec 5, 2023
- 4 min
After Catholic guilt
Writing by Erin Cullinan, artwork by Alana Kenneth. The remorse after imagining a stranger naked. The pit in your stomach after telling a...
Rattlecap Writers
- Dec 5, 2023
- 1 min
Wolf in Brandy Melville
Writing by Lizzie Armitage, artwork by Seth Statham. Black eyes glint at me from the jewellery box, set in gilded emblems of blasphemy...
Rattlecap Writers
- Dec 5, 2023
- 9 min
Bakemono 時代
Writing by Michael Wu, illustration by Lucienne Saisselin. 1 Look at Bill. Bill was not really his name; he’s my cousin. Bill got drunk...
Rattlecap Writers
- Oct 30, 2023
- 4 min
Sweet
Writing by Jessie Irvin Rose. Artwork by Yury Aleksanyan. 0. She Two pigeons outside my window plunge their beaks into each other’s...
Rattlecap Writers
- Oct 30, 2023
- 2 min
On Collage
Writing by Scarlett Smyth. Artwork by Jocelyn Arnold. Marguerite and I both cried cutting the chestnut trees. I hid behind a middling...
Rattlecap Writers
- Oct 30, 2023
- 1 min
Sixth Meditation
Writing by Kuba Olszak. Artwork by James Wake. Perhaps I can only love in a Cartesian way. I can either love the soul and the soul that...
Rattlecap Writers
- Oct 30, 2023
- 1 min
The Body: Is it mine? Exploring Violence, Ownership, and Gender Dysphoria
Writing by Heidi Hafner. Artwork by Seth Statham. I like that they asked me about the body, Not my body. Because it’s not mine, It never...
Rattlecap Writers
- Feb 25, 2023
- 6 min
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...
Rattlecap Writers
- Feb 25, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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...
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