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Honesty lines

By Alice Godliman

Alice Godliman's thoughtful poem explores the joy in aging with the expectation of perpetual youth. Read More

Heartstrings

By Roisin Craig

A short story that explores the opportunities and dangers afforded by a community that forms itself around a shared narrative. Read More

Villain

By Alanna Duffield

The story questions what it means to be a villain in the context of societal norms and how far we should give in to our desires. Read More

The Myth of Change

By Emily Schmidt

Emily Schmidt writes a love letter to New York City, her reflection, and the people each of us have yet to be. Read More

Little Red

By Rebecca Lambert

Rebecca Lambert's 'Little Red' is her re-telling of a popular fairy-tale. For the little girl in her story, the threat has moved from outside to inside the home, and the ‘wolfish’ characteristics that were made palatable in a fairy-tale context become humanised in a frighteningly plausible scenario. Read More

Out out

By Ruby Norman-Curran

What narratives do we rewrite? Ruby Norman Curran's short poem succinctly puts a white lie in the spotlight. Read More

Look Away, Look Away

By Ann Howells

Ann Howells' moving poem explores the inherited climate crisis and it's effects on our future. Read More

Freckles

By Ellen Perry

Ellen Perry's touching pieces reflects on her shifting relationship with her freckles: inherited, hated, and now appreciated. Read More