Look how their fingers intertwine

An old couple sit on a bench, and we can't stop looking at them. Join us in Emily Ford's warming fiction. Read More

Silent Partner

A story about a haunted relationship and a quiet man. Poignant fiction from Zoe Paskett. Read More

Planting Lilies

Heartbreak can bloom, just like lilies. Read Samantha Blaney's short story, budding with hope of a different kind. Read More

The Lovers Recall

In a trio of poems, writer St. James pieces together memories of a past relationship. Read More

Nourish, Repeat

Lou Ramsay on the pillars of self-care – and maintaining them when a relationship that once provided so much sustenance goes bad. Read More

When You Miss My Cooking

Take down the cookbooks from the shelf and spend time remembering through recipes, in Christina Dalcher's lovely short fiction. Read More

What Tove Taught Me

Elizabeth Lovatt on Tove Jansson, making art and keeping your curiosity alive. Read More

Eros

By Nadia Henderson

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

Monstrous

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

Close

Intimacy and closeness unravels in Debbie Cannon's beautiful poem. Read More