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Seating Arrangements – from Let Me Know When You’re Home: Stories of Female Friendship
Read a short story by Sara Sherwood, following old friends at a dinner party. and originally published in Let Me Know When You're Home. Read More
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‘Foxglove’ by Nadia Henderson: from Tools for Surviving a Storm: Eleven Tales of Nature, Love and Fear
By Nadia Henderson
Read Foxglove from Nadia Henderson's collection Tools for Surviving the Storm. This incisive short story explores how mother's debilitating fear turns to obsession. Read More
3 months ago
Aprikosen, Marillen – from What She’s Having: Stories of Women and Food
By Maria Ilona Moore
Maria Ilona Moore's non-fiction piece Aprikosen, Marillen, where she explores her family's history, nostalgia and duality of homemade apricot jam. Read More
5 months ago
Don’t Let Them Get High Off Your Narcissistic Supply: Rule #1 Do Not Offer Yourself Up as the Scapegoat
By Riley Forsythe
Don’t Get High off Your Narcissistic Supply is a series of poems that offer up nurturing advice to anyone who, like an awkward newborn giraffe stumbles to find their footing on sturdy ground, has newly awakened to realise they have been the victim of narcissistic abuse. The series aims to gently support with wry humour and inner child healing suggestions. Read More
9 months ago
Mother
By Sophie Titcomb
Sophie Titcomb's non-fiction piece charts her experience of gradual knowing; of my body and heart knowing better than she did how to love and care for her son, while she was still adjusting to (and in some ways, struggling with) the concept of being a mother. Read More
9 months ago
New Baby Smell
By Briony Bunker
Briony's poem explores the wisdom gained from having a baby - the truths that confound expectations and the secret, unspoken club you join with other parents. Read More
10 months ago
The Lost Things
By Bonnie Radcliffe
Bonnie Radcliffe's beautifully crafted short story explores the wisdom of knowing ourselves and what it means to lose that. Read More
10 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
2 years ago
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