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 […]
Tag: original work
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 […]
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, […]
3rd – Worry Doll by Freyja McCreery
Crystal glass terrarium, soft, smooth, glide, prove. Inside, a male and female pair, dolls with whom this glass cave I share. Performing for them every day, ironic, encouraging breaking, reaching […]
Poem: The Past Slid Back
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 […]
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 […]