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A sit down with your ego
By Annie Warren
Annie Warren's piece features a short conversation between a young woman's inner critic who is in a sulk and her ego who is feeling magnanimous. Read More
2 months ago
You’ll Always Have a Story
By Laura Schuller
Laura Schuller explores the necessity of telling yourself stories in order to live. Read More
3 months ago
Face-to-face
By Kate Todd
Kate Todd cleverly explores ideas of the public and private self and perception through a scene at a public art gallery. Read More
3 months ago
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
8 months ago
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
9 months ago
What is Thicker than Water?
By Ava MacPherson
On a night out with the boys, a son is scared that they are turning into their father. Read More
1 year ago
In Darkness
By Dominique Gracia
Step onto Medusa's island with Dominique Gracia's retelling, in which her island refuge itself turns men to stone. Read More
1 year ago
The Infestation
By Rebecca Hastings
A problem with cockroaches leaves an impact on Maggie. Read More
2 years ago
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