Category: Creative Writing

ONE POEM – Imogen Osborne

We return to find
the magnolia still
bruising itself into blossom.

SHORT STORY – Annie Dobson

Compulsory heterosexuality rots the brain, has rotted my brain. I just wanted to undo, unlive it.

ONE POEM – Bradley David

Then to discover we both go
first for that old chipped blue soup bowl

Is that love?

The Piano Man – Frances Green

That night that the piano man and I first slept together was the night we discovered the pleasure of talking aloud about murder.

ONE POEM – Denisa Vítová

I spilled pinot noir on the bed sheet
and said I was a virgin.

ONE POEM – Lucy Holme

Unlike a jellyfish, she has a brain but doubts her instinct for survival.
swoop siren, dive under.

ART: ALL IS ONE – Camila Curiel

We are bound to nature, worms and dirt, we come from earth, and to earth we will return.

ONE POEM – David Linklater

The train leans through
the Highland line, Inverness
to Fearn, wheat either side.
This carriage bows for you.

TWO POEMS – Al McClimens

‘She named the major constellations
while I gawked at them and reached out to touch.’

COMFORT FOODS // TWO POEMS – Daniele Nunziata

I’ve tried planting potatoes since you left,
but they never grow the way they did for you.

ONE POEM – Bronwen Wilson

I imagine turning into
a flamingo, likes the ones
on my onesie that I’m dying
to wear.

ONE POEM – Cai Draper

i was scared to make this poem /
treat them right / they never
came close to meeting in life