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

The Hunt

The mysterious protagonist of Tallulah Knowles’ dark short story becomes both hunter and hunted. Read More

Last Night

Red-wine breath and tear-stained cheeks. The events of a night are left behind as morning breaks but the impression remains, in Madeleine Accalia's poem – our opening piece for TRACE. Read More

Monstrous

A dark, forbidden love is played out in the stanzas of Lauren Waugh's poem. Read More

Both

Nas's poem focuses on the contradicting halves that make up a person, and how you can be both. Read More