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26 April 2012

Emma Russon writes for children with 'Cuddles'

“But it wasn’t where I left it!  It really wasn’t!” In a demonstration of violent manhandling that made the class wonder if Mr Greggs should ever have been hired in the ...
25 April 2012

A Schizophrenic Nightmare by Katya Mikova

This is a place I don’t feel alone.This is a place I feel alone.…….. Yes. No. Run. Don’t. Go!Silence… Tick-Tock. Faster. Slower. Time runs (not). No time lost. No time ...

24 April 2012

A World in Poetry by Katya Mikova

I saw a whole new world in poetry.Moving (not).Stretching.Motionlessly sitting.Baffling.Getting thicker… and thicker.Getting slower. Telling us we can’t afford possible tomorrows.Absorb your life.Embrace the moments. I saw the world there. In ...

23 April 2012

Golden Boy by Ray Berry

‘Push! Push Harder Barbra!’ ‘This is as much pushing as you are ever going to get woman!’ ‘Come on now Barbra.’ ‘Don’t you “come on” me, you giant raging lesbian!’ ‘I am not a ...

22 April 2012

Wife.Husband.Pig by Lauren Addicott

The wife lies in silence.  Eyes bright, another night of no sleep. She watched his chest rise and fall, imagines his stomach heaving through the burden of his fat – his ...

21 April 2012

Why They Run by Lauren Addicott

Nobody truly knows why they run. You’d have to study their lose-limbed ways religiously, and for many days before you recognised the rhythm in the squealing, sticky-fingered hive that is the playground, alive.   I was a ...

20 April 2012

Getting Old by Durian Willink

Attracted as ever, by the sea, we lumber forward, bent downward, Slowly succumbing to the pull of gravity. It is, after all, inexorable. Seagulls gawk as we trudge by, strangers turn astray. Through a ...

3 April 2012

Girls Night Out by Morgaine Davidson

It’s Saturday night and the sun has just set, We all want to go to the bar. But wait just a second, we cannot leave yet; If we do, we won’t get very ...

27 March 2012

Open Up Your Eyes by Anushree Nande

The high-pitched tinkle of the bell. Kat has heard it so many times and yet, she involuntarily looks up. Every single time. A stranger walks in, smiles at her. Her ...

27 March 2012

Whore by Camilla Duggan

Inedible woman. Ingest her lips of little consumption. Take with caution from her bargain bin of bones - a worthy purchase. Skin dipped in sugar and bitten by the paper cut teeth of debauched fifty pound notes - curtains ...

20 March 2012

It’s not a crime to be an asshole by Jamie Ryder

Andy knows he can have anyone he wants; it isn’t a question of ifs or maybes. He feels it in his bones, as if God carved something so irresistible into ...

20 March 2012

Dreamcatcher by Mikey Goddard

The Dreamcatcher was given to Donna by Aunty May who babysat her and Paul. She couldn’t remember how old she had been, but she recalled the excitement with which she ...

22 February 2012

Madame Brittan by Ian Johnson

Madame Brittan pulled the cigar from her lips and let the ash fall to the table, missing the seashell ashtray. She blew out mahogany smoke. The passing waiter coughed.             ‘Madame,’ ...