Currently celebrating the launch of her second chapbook Going Gorgeous, poet Ann Graal has been charming northern audiences with her quiet wit and linguistic spark. Midlands-born, Teeside-based and pioneering poetry at an […]
Category: Original Work
Short Story: The Wall
The long Roman wall was cast bright white by that strange natural alchemy sunlight grants. You felt the oldness of the city watching it set against that blue sky, like […]
You Look At Him: A Short Story
You look at him. He doesn’t look back. You live in a different world. A place where you are afraid. You are 13 years old and you have no idea […]
The Underground: A Short Story
The speakers explode when the bass drops and the crowd goes wild. The club is so crowded people can barely move, let alone dance. It’s that time of the night […]
Poem: We Hide Them Here
We hide them here, where the living fear to tread, content with giving their pocket scraps to those who heed, misplacing the value of those in need. We hide them […]
Memory Stored: A Short Story
‘You’d better do it this time. SAM, wake up’. Initiating… system functioning. Hello. ‘Hah! I can’t believe you’re finally working! OK, OK… Hello SAM. My name is Fiona […]
Short Story: Between Dimensions
‘No, trust me, I can travel to other dimensions!’ I say taking a sip from my glass of whiskey, but I know there is no point in insisting. The man […]
Short Story: We Machines
We machines cannot understand your fight against this world. Even after our bombs wiped your slate clean, letting the architecture of your civilisation crumble into dust, you remain a contradiction. […]
1st – Begin by Thomas Porter
Our planet’s only ever seen a tiny percentage of us… and for ten years of that percentage I was caught by self-imposed structures and thoughts. Whilst it’ll always be tempting to pursue […]
2nd – Self-Made Man by David Kent
Beginning. All I really know is my own, as I was present for most of it. I’m not talking about my biological beginning, birds and bees and birth and all, […]