The past slid back and our childhood stands in a long-worn place: the plush of our hands by a stammering fire, the sputtering tongue of a candle then higher […]
Category: Literature
The Secret Garden: A Short Story
Once upon a time, far away from the people of Europe, far in the North, there was a little island. Surrounded by deep waters and engrossed by towering waves, hardly […]
The Yorker’s 2017 Creative Writing Competition
The Yorker is proud to announce the title of its 2017 Magazine: ‘Beginnings!’ If you’re a poetry or short story writer and a student at The University of York, submit […]
Poem: No Eden
We strive to what you ask of us, Through rings and hoops Of fire and blood. Yet not for glory or fame Do the embattled generation work, But for the […]
Short Story: The Tunnel
Keep moving. Look down. Don’t let them see you. They cackle. They screech. They haunt. I cannot see them, shrouded in shadows and mystery. They lurk in the corners of […]
Until The End: Part 34
On the far-flung planet of Hayveon Blaze, a plucky army commander, is fighting a seemingly hopeless battle. In a universe where empires span solar systems, a great war has split the […]
Talking Heads: A Dance of Two
An adaption of Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett’s first meeting in Pride and Prejudice Mr Bingley: Once again I am blown away by the wonders and virtues life can bestow […]
Short Story: Chrysalis
She doesn’t watch; she observes. Nobody knows for certain that she exists but they have always sensed that she’s there. For many years she has gone unseen, blending with the […]
Until The End: Part 33
On the far-flung planet of Hayveon Blaze, a plucky army commander, is fighting a seemingly hopeless battle. In a universe where empires span solar systems, a great war has split the […]
Poem: Holly
In a suitcase your years at the lit bus stop. Laughing loud and long, the top of your lungs a screaming fox, you had stopped to tell me you were […]