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

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

Jogging on the Wirral Way

Alex Scott takes us back to childhood with dandelion wishes, panted breaths and pink cheeks. Read More

Bathe

Jillian Boyd has a secret passion involving eucalyptus bath salts. Read More

Those Days

By Nadia Henderson

'The old me lives in a box under the bed.' Read More

Memories to Come

In the first of our series of pieces about places, Kitty Stogdon returns to the spot she spent her childhood summers, and relives her memories. Read More

Cartwheels

Rosie Hughes's poem on all the small things that we remember from our childhood – and the bigger things that we forget. Read More

Eros

By Nadia Henderson

This is the story of what could have been. Read More

Synonyms

In our first piece for DESIRE, Catriona Morton looks at every aspect of the term and how it echoes through her life. Read More

Rituals of Female Friendship

Rachel Knott's piece encapsulates the oh-so-specific magic of female friendship that we don't always see covered. Read More