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You Smell Nice
TW: SA, CSA. As a child, there was always an innate fear of some ghastly odour stalking me, one that seeped from the holes in my purity...

Fiona K
Jun 30, 20242 min read


Sweetbitter, Bittersweet & Velazquez’s Las Meninas
'A dizzying retinal riddle of a painting, Las Meninas plays tug of war with our mind. […] Suddenly, we see Las Meninas for what it is –...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
Jun 23, 20247 min read


Meteor Showers
Seven meteor showers a year, you said, That’s all the sky will give you, And you should be grateful - such moments are rare. Here, you...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
May 23, 20243 min read


The House of Leaves and Strangers
There is an empty space I inhabit with no walls and no furniture. At first it is aggressively white but as I scramble in the blinding...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
May 10, 20245 min read


I Think, Therefore, I Am (Not?)
There's a state (of mind) I frequent, where every intent behind what is said and done feels falsified. Despite what most may deduce, for...

Fiona K
Apr 23, 20242 min read


Yours, mine, (h)Ours
Where does the power lie, when a body is a body, but words are glass shards made for bleeding? Where does my pleading lead me, when I...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
Mar 7, 20241 min read


The Four-dimensionality of Modern Moments
I have always been interested in the relationship between space, time and the mind and the intriguing ways in which they interact to...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
Feb 2, 20246 min read


After David Markson
(follows absolutely no logical order but kinda fun to play with) In the beginning, maybe, I took a spherical ball of ink and stretched it...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
Jan 12, 20245 min read


Fragments
I started writing a long fiction piece in 2021 and thought I had lost the entire thing but miraculously my laptop which is beyond fucked...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
Jan 2, 202410 min read


Stream of Song
She holds her longing like a stream of song, her melody a body torn over long-worn borders of the right and the wrong. Crouched deep in...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
Dec 23, 20231 min read


Excalibur
Oh, gentle ceasefire: my resigned acceptance lies like sheet-ice on lava. Rose petals hang heavy on the cool surface, perfumed, putrid...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
Nov 2, 20231 min read


Articulated Anger and the Gift of Rage
Until recently, I have always told myself that I am not an angry person. I have told myself I hate feeling anger because it’s a useless,...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
Oct 28, 20235 min read


Space-time and Circular Beingness.
In an article I once read titled ‘Doty, Deleuze, and "Distance": The Stevens Intertext’ David Jarraway compares how Mark Doty (1953 –...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
Oct 25, 20235 min read


Early
Scrub me down to the bone Nothing but splinters Nothing but fragments Of the girl scared to think scared to dream The battlements in her...

Katy Harrison
Sep 28, 20231 min read
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