Creative

  • Sleepiest Cat Alive

    Sleepiest Cat Alive

    Being a proud anti-locker student, I am forever juggling all my textbooks, exercise books, and lunch in my bag – forever, and ever. My mother tells me it causes…

  • Record 01

    Record 01

    TW: Alcohol Record of Interrogation of Witness Officer John H. Clark Start of examination: 03.02 End of examination 03.21 J: Good evening, Mr Smith. Before I ask any questions,…

  • Back To The Ocean

    Back To The Ocean

    Aside from the fact that you were raised in a landlocked country—and the fact that the only body of water you could easily access was Thunersee, a 53-minute train…

  • My Freedoms

    My Freedoms

    I climb because of the ache in my calves, because my breath puffs out in little clouds, soft and fleeting when the air bites cold. It’s not a grand…

  • Georgie

    Georgie

    Georgie has always been there for me. Waiting, sitting, lying down. He doesn’t talk much, but it’s a good kind of quiet—the kind that fills the car when it’s…

  • Second Chances

    Second Chances

    She finds him on the edge of the cliff.   “I thought you quit.” She says, through a damp haze of smoke. A note of disappointment slips into her…

  • Conscience

    Conscience

    Conscience   CWs: violence (non-graphic), mentions of death   The boy showed up at my doorstep with exactly one gun.   Not even a machine gun. Just a plain…

  • Home Is Where The Heart Is

    Home Is Where The Heart Is

    Anya sprawls over the patterned seats of the train, and all the tension in her body loosens. A small lamp is all the light she has. She cranes her…

  • The Prized

    The Prized

    It was an ordinary morning in the still autumn, a cool breeze brushed the denim carapace of a motionless farmer, eyes creaking open at a stray ray of the…

  • Under The Curtain 

    Under The Curtain 

    My mother holds me close, her voice like a lullaby, soft and familiar. She whispers something tender as her comfortingly calloused fingers draw the curtains closed, in a slow,…

  • Un-Titled 

    Un-Titled 

    To graze the moon with five-toed footsteps,  and the blood rushing to animate the muscles  as they function below the expected gravity.  Though it is our function to be…

  • Tombstone Of Human

    Tombstone Of Human

    I begin all my letters with the same phrase.  And end them the same way too.    Wishes,  A thousand and one flowers over your tombstone.   It’ll be…

  • The day… Tuesday!

    The day… Tuesday!

     “Tuesday,” I muttered to no one in particular as I rolled out of bed. The minimalist black and fawn clock on the far wall read nine minutes past eight.…

  • All The World’s A Stage

    All The World’s A Stage

    Drama is rather perplexing, and I’m not sure how to describe it. Simple enough is the pit, which isn’t always the theatre’s lowest surface, but still below the stage…

  • Reminisce of a Better Life

    Reminisce of a Better Life

    At night, I sit on the windowsill and wonder how Earth rotates and shows us stars. At night, I lie awake to realise, I’m not the sun, a moon…

  • Band Rehersal

    Band Rehersal

    Disclaimer: This piece is entirely a joke.   27/09 Hey, it’s been a while.  (Is Ivory high again?) Not much has happened really. A good chunk of my older…

  • Unopened Letters

    Unopened Letters

    The time is 2:56 am. On a ripped piece of card that peeks out of scattered papers, there is almost illegible handwriting. Letters are squeezed together and angular, and…

  • Midnight Snack

    Midnight Snack

    CW: Disturbing Everything was dark… No– wait. There was light. Somewhere.  I couldn’t see it, but I could feel it.  My hands reached around me. The texture of cotton…

  • Seagulls

    Seagulls

    When I was just a child, I’d have dreams.  Dreams of the crayon-coloured beaches,  Dreams of small stubs of fingers had drawn from five-dollar felts,  Dreams of seagulls.  Part…

  • You Are Human

    You Are Human

    But here, you’re treated like cattle. Sedated, reduced from the most capable creature on the planet To just a pair of eyes and a thumb. This is by design.…