‘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

casual

By Georgina Jeronymides-Norie

'casual' is written using haiku stanzas, aside from the final 2 stanzas to explore the pleasure and sadness of a sexual relationship that will never be anything more. Read More

Eternal Optimist

By Dilly Attygalle

Eternal Optimist is about finding joy in the outside world again after a period of being secluded written post pandemic. Read More

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

I’ll Show You

Ilisha Thiru Purcell imagines what it would be like to talk to her 18 year old self and to tell her about all the pleasure she is yet to experience. Read More

Because We’re Mortals

By Courtney Burk

Courtney Burk's poem explores the end of a pleasurable day where the speaker realises her own mortality against the backdrop of classical mythology Read More

Seating Arrangements – from Let Me Know When You’re Home: Stories of Female Friendship

By Sara Sherwood

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

Pub Crawl

By Safa Maryam

In Pub Crawl, the narrator finds herself in a familiar setting and situation. This time, however, she is years older and a little wiser to the rose-tinted and romanticised view she had of the same scene and circumstances she stood in so many times before, when she was just nineteen and in love. Read More

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

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