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A basket sits on a table. Filled with oranges. The sun travels across the floorboards and bleeds onto the table. The oranges light on...

Who disregarded her parents' wisdom, and perished as a result. Clarisse devotes her life to fruit, She keeps her spares within her boot...

There was a door about four metres off the ground, planted on the ceiling, which is always strange. There was something darkly humorous...

Her breath smells of cigarettes and her sweater is worn down. She’s been sat there for over an hour, slowly drifting away from reality....

To be a lizard I scale a yellow clay wall Tail wriggling swiftly My little heart beats fast Crunching insects in between my jaw Legs...

If a day of my life disappeared I don’t think I would notice All the days are the same in my head - All the weekdays, anyway If it was a...

The Kauri tree, Big and overshadowing. Its branches stretching out, Leaves rustling in gentle zephyr. I remember climbing it, Higher and...

For numerous years it sat there Hidden from prying peepers Like unwelcome baggage Or an undesirable fate It perches feebly on its...

Chapter One. The Murderer. Tap, tap, tap. The footsteps of the murderer grew louder and louder as I was shaking in my closet. Beads of...

I keep my eyes on the concrete surrounding my feet. Remnants of McDonald’s circle an overflowing rubbish bin and the shadows of heavy...

1. Domain. Tentacle Bach Moo! moo! farming watchfully His left cheek flaking off the canvas, so does the sky, The sun keeps eating the...

The first thing that went wrong was that the rat got fat. We had given it a happy life full of all the things a rat could wish for, and...

言 Yan (Spoken Word) The spoken word reveals itself ‒ on whiteboards, scrawled quickly, in ink Three lines, a box, and a smudge; nothing...

On the 15th of March 2019 more than a thousand students decided to walk out of school to march in a strike against climate change, I was...

Richard woke up at 6 am every morning. Then he made a peanut butter sandwich. He cut the sandwich diagonally down the middle to make two...

*** Published in 2019 Anthology 'More of Us'. Congratulations Reza! *** We be pack of crow. Black bird perched upon scorched branch....

Whenever I am on the ferry I have two main feelings. The prominent feeling is boredom, but another major feeling is the excitement of...

the end won’t be seen with a BANG. you won’t catch it coming round the corner it’ll creep up - a caught-in-the-throat comment never...

You are too young to live and die Underneath this starry sky And I know you’d rather be eating your mother’s pie But you must attack thy...

My moon, my sun; a blossom . you began so rare and so wild. a posy pink ; i repulsed at your beauty but you grew, as did i. we became...