Creative
Pick Your Own Adventure: A Guide to Being Alone at 2AM
You’ve found yourself here again. 2am, seated at a cluttered table, lost in your thoughts. A few years shy of 25, you think you’ve lived enough years to feel wiser than you do. Instead, you’re sitting here with more questions than answers, unable to shake off an overwhelming sense of unease and dread about the […]
23 October 2020
Badass Women
Up next we have the lovely walking encyclopedia, Hypatia of Alexandria. The daughter of a well-respected academic, Hypatia was an Ancient Greek-Egyptian astronomer, mathematician and philosopher who was born around 350 CE (Common Era). She was raised outside the constricting gender roles within Egyptian-Greek society by her forward thinking Papa and thrived as a professor […]
26 August 2020
Fantasy
When the quarter moon sets, Something is perhaps known, or even a line descends revealed in the moonlight, between him and him, them and them, her and her yet, and yet it breaks, in some shape and form, it is lost a little just a little […]
26 August 2020
鱼 （You）
Two boats cast their fishing nets, I am the mermaid caught in the middle, 来回，来回, they both compete. They reach for spears when they realise 美人鱼不是那么好抓的. And isn’t it better to kill, Than have a creature of two worlds? The waves offer me up treacherously, 风一样毫不留情， I’m sushi ready to be served, 在金色的玉碗里. 当你们 scraped […]
26 August 2020
The Cherryman: Overneath the Cold Cracked Hall
On the moon’s longest night, during the feast of Lune Harbour, cupped mead and slight comments danced courtly between Queen Sabbas IX and her duchesses and ladies. Jesters, firebreathers, novel conjurers and their travel-worn familiars paid tribute. Drunken commonfolk with crumpled invitations bawled their gratitude. Flourishing, grovelling, performing, and staying silently prayerful in the presence […]
26 August 2020
DURIAN/DURIAN
Durian, Much loved, yet maligned fruit Your spiky, intimidating appearance masks something hidden, enticingly forbidden, tempting us to indulge our lips inside your unknown landscape of custardy flesh And like a mole working its deception, you take everyone unawares when you are exposed Your musky, exotic aroma is mysterious Nefarious even So when your presence is […]
26 August 2020
The Proposal
I am going now, into the soft swooning night. Sleep well, sweetheart, I will be back soon. I need to talk to the night, that sweltering air enveloping us all, carrying us precariously to dawn. I need to talk to something that is not you. After an evening such as the one we’ve passed, there […]
26 August 2020
In the Wall
crag lines run ripple across creased walls an eye formed long sight caught through time rockets and tanks fear, and a lifetime all seen through a single crag in the wall
26 August 2020
Flash Fiction Edition Two 2020: Firework
by Vanessa Lee January, February pressed their lips to my neck, leaving sunburn and blisters behind. They apologised, of course, and laid our heads in their laps. We dreamt like it was January 1st of summers past, fireworks dancing in our eyes. When the rain came, I danced alone on the baked earth of my […]
26 August 2020