By Rin Norte A sestina The wasp hovers in small repetitive vectors over the sand like a helicopter locating casualties in the sea. It settles, digs with front feet, a…
By Florence Hutchinson Blue eared and broken, I fell upon Tom Bell’s Rhinoceros skull I take a sip of bluebells and wild garlic I smother my lips with turkey-tailed mushrooms…
By Kerry Maria Life long odyssey through dystopian territory Seeking freedom from the curse of Pandora’s box Dreamers fantasize of a Utopian wonderland where celestial visions and divine prophecies liberate…
By Michael Conley we take a wrong turn, zip of freeway giving way to loose rocks and potholes and limbs and pine needles trusting in the thickness of unfamiliar tyres…
By Nida Sajid Listless at the lip of the sea, we wait. A million menisci glide past us, I admire their iridescent gait. Grave, he flicks through a Guardian long…
By Rosie Mapplebeck The laser shocks your skin to acned spew diminishing the beard-hair once I praised reminding me I bought your grooming kit to celebrate your growth into a…
By Ben Austell Noah wasn’t sad that no one was around. In ten years, he had never been given the chance to see the hotel this way before. The hallways…
By Marie-Louise Plum Exquisite uncanny, never to be grasped: wispily alight driver that keeps one alive. Desire, object of ether, unattainable, unmeetable, unseen caregiver shady deliverer of plentiful salt scatterings.…
By Katy Ewing I start out the front door and down the three steps onto the rural A-road we live beside. It’s busy at this time, 3.30: school runs, farm…
By Jack Davies we took out on the road with stolen wine, drove all night to the punk gig with clean sober kids, red-hot poker love in Newport, all the…
