Beholder | Danny Andrews
The stem stands tall, A pillar of stability. Of sustenance. Reliable, trustworthy, Vital. To the flower, at least. To the gardener it is...
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Sep 163 min read
Admiration into Nothing | Anonymous
Another night with no objective. Another night with nothing, not even sleep on my mind. On this very familiar night I gazed upon the...
Sep 122 min read
Sonder (Commuting) | Sophia Verai
Sonder: (neologism) The profound feeling of realising that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as...
Sep 61 min read
Coalescence | Danny Andrews
Light. Weightlessness. The doors of the train spring open and I leap aboard. It seems even the commuters are living brighter days: one...
Sep 21 min read
Changing Seasons | Sophia Verai
As golden days begin to wane And dim their laughing light The yawning Summer, ripe with grain Lies down and fades from sight The skies...
May 251 min read
Surface | Douceur
Gliding softly on the surface of things And not really letting anyone in Diving deep into a web of blue dreams With only brightness for...
May 194 min read
Pomegranate: The Story of Persephone Retold | Chadae Labeach
[content warning: references to abuse] I ran. I ran until my feet bled and my vision blurred. I ran from my mother's home where love was...
May 122 min read
The Old Mossy Staircase | Jack Morhen-Romero
2nd place for Prose category in the school creative writing competition in October 2023 The old mossy staircase was a relic of forgotten...
Apr 221 min read
Defining Love | Douceur
Ambitious task, isn't it? I don't presume to have the answer. If anything I have the question. What is that thing that happens when I...
Apr 201 min read
Tangents Meet | Sophia Verai
(written with the narrative voices of 'The Gun' by Vicki Weaver and 'Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass' by Simon Armitage in mind) A...
Mar 124 min read
The Vessel | Danny Andrews
It’s been thirty days since the attack. I have not left the reactor core since then, but every morning I awake to the thrumming of...
Feb 276 min read
How Do You Spend the Last Morning of Your Life? | Danny Andrews
Dawn rose slowly that morning. The violet Sun shone across the desert, the sands shining bright with the purple light of a dying star....
Feb 52 min read
Power in The Tongue | Chadae Labeach
Her eyes were a love letter. Their sweet chocolate encapsulated everything that I loved about her. That passion that somehow never...
Jan 221 min read
In the Eyes of a Beholder | Sophia Verai
I'd draw him if I knew how - Trace the line of his back and his brow Touch him lightly with a pencil Frame him by a windowsill...
Dec 12, 20231 min read
Misleading Pleasantries | Sophia Verai
With her clear gaze and soft little smile she shows you the same good-natured indifference she'd show everyone in the world. She's...
Dec 5, 20232 min read
Ageing Beside Stones in Bloom | Milo Ghandai
O soft speaking stones frustrated by time, Show me the gentle hand encased in frigid stone. O Green-plagued, yellow-speckled face, your...
Dec 5, 20231 min read
Staircase | Sophia Verai
You’ve found your way up, now find it back down. Turn to see what’s gone before The light behind a closing door A newly pressed footprint...
Dec 5, 20232 min read
Hands Shaking with Adrenaline | Eve Franklin
Hands shaking with adrenaline, I turned the page. Halfway down, below a regimented paragraph of words in Calibri and a short, instructive...
Dec 5, 20231 min read
Whispers in the Abyss: Embracing Life's Paradox | Kayleigh Coulibaly
Each step a sigh, a fleeting breath, In the spiral's dance, where life meets death. Pointless whispers in the cosmic air, As we move...
Dec 5, 20232 min read
Temple | Hasan Jubril Alao
Nestled amidst a thick enigmatic forest were the remnants of an antiquated temple, a testament to the bygone eras of old. Its strange...
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