Fresh AvocadoApr 41 minA basket of oranges - Amy BrightA basket sits on a table. Filled with oranges. The sun travels across the floorboards and bleeds onto the table. The oranges light on...
Fresh AvocadoApr 41 minClarisse - Matilda LiveseyWho disregarded her parents' wisdom, and perished as a result. Clarisse devotes her life to fruit, She keeps her spares within her boot...
Fresh AvocadoAug 28, 20204 minThe house in the attic - Alex QuinnThere was a door about four metres off the ground, planted on the ceiling, which is always strange. There was something darkly humorous...
Fresh AvocadoAug 28, 20201 minThe way of life - Abby ScottHer breath smells of cigarettes and her sweater is worn down. She’s been sat there for over an hour, slowly drifting away from reality....
Fresh AvocadoAug 28, 20201 minLizard Luxuries - Friday Meulengracht-MadsenTo be a lizard I scale a yellow clay wall Tail wriggling swiftly My little heart beats fast Crunching insects in between my jaw Legs...
Fresh AvocadoAug 28, 20201 minIf a day of my life disappeared - Joyia RaymondIf 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...
Fresh AvocadoAug 28, 20201 minTime - Millie CroweThe Kauri tree, Big and overshadowing. Its branches stretching out, Leaves rustling in gentle zephyr. I remember climbing it, Higher and...
Fresh AvocadoJul 29, 20191 min'The Piano' - Isy Gibson (Year 10)For numerous years it sat there Hidden from prying peepers Like unwelcome baggage Or an undesirable fate It perches feebly on its...
Fresh AvocadoJul 29, 20195 min'Blood Rose' - Josie Stephens (Year 9)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...
Fresh AvocadoJul 29, 20192 min'Queens of Cuba Street' - Sadie Galloway (Year 11) I keep my eyes on the concrete surrounding my feet. Remnants of McDonald’s circle an overflowing rubbish bin and the shadows of heavy...
Fresh AvocadoJul 29, 20192 min'Nadia Boulanger' - Mallory Stevenson (Year 13)1. Domain. Tentacle Bach Moo! moo! farming watchfully His left cheek flaking off the canvas, so does the sky, The sun keeps eating the...
Fresh AvocadoJul 29, 20194 min'The issue with the fat rat' - Emily Rosemergy (Year 12)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...
Fresh AvocadoApr 9, 20191 min言 'Yan' - Cadence Chung (Year 11)言 Yan (Spoken Word) The spoken word reveals itself ‒ on whiteboards, scrawled quickly, in ink Three lines, a box, and a smudge; nothing...
Fresh AvocadoApr 9, 20192 min'If the earth were cool I'd still be in school' - Lily Parkin (Year 12)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...
Fresh AvocadoApr 9, 20191 min'A gift in time' - Hana Kilford (Year 10)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...
Fresh AvocadoApr 9, 20191 min'What we be' - Reza Zareian-Jahromi (Year 13)*** Published in 2019 Anthology 'More of Us'. Congratulations Reza! *** We be pack of crow. Black bird perched upon scorched branch....
Fresh AvocadoApr 9, 20191 min'Pelorus Bridge' - Jelle Keizer (Year 9)Whenever I am on the ferry I have two main feelings. The prominent feeling is boredom, but another major feeling is the excitement of...
Fresh AvocadoAug 9, 20182 min'BANG' - Maya Neupane (Year 13)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...
Fresh AvocadoAug 2, 20181 min'A speech to the troops' - Zachary Taylor (Year 10)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...
Fresh AvocadoAug 2, 20181 min'My moon, my sun' - Ri Theodore (Year 12)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...