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Have You Got Your Own Back?
A candle waves its deliberately pleasant balm around you. Lavender is known to soothe, right? Your palms absorb warm exhalations from a...

A.E.Shaw
Jun 13, 20222 min read


Whale Fall
Under frigid tides, love’s last joyous lungful escapes, so finally, passion’s carcass may sink. Bound to a heartstrung anchor, we drift,...

Scott Hughes
Jun 10, 20221 min read


Ego Death
You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes? - Nietzsche Ego-Death...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
May 17, 20223 min read


On a Positive Note
I am happiest when the sun shines or when I see you, though those feel one and the same nowadays, as your presence feels as warm as the...

Fiona K
Apr 3, 20221 min read


Flayed
Epidermis. Dermis. Cut down a peg. Get off your high horse. You Dermis. She's panicking now. Bloody Dermis. Wait. Hypodermis. Ha. Breathe...
Lauren Levine
Mar 21, 20221 min read


In Dialogue: Rodney's experience
This was a letter written to me following my post about growing up with a disabled brother. Dear Olivia, Your experience carried an extra...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
Mar 6, 20226 min read


Corkscrew
A month swimming the desert for a single oasis Those small drops to return to heaven That golden ring flies and buzzes but never lands...
Andrew Sullivan
Feb 16, 20222 min read


What's Your Favorite Celestial Body? Mine's the Moon.
You know, It’s weird, right Because Growing up, I had always wanted a brother Or a sister, (I didn’t (and still don’t) discriminate) I...

Jordan Kupfer
Jan 26, 20222 min read


What IS it?
Is our shared time ineffectual? Is this an unrecognised personal fault? Or is it you, avoiding an insect on your bedroom wall; one you...

Katy Harrison
Jan 20, 20221 min read


On PMS
I stole my mother's white dress Without her knowing oops! Her dress of youth I stand in the mirror This is summer “And yet”- That’s all...
jemima.mowlem
Dec 15, 20211 min read


Senses
Pungent, petrifying Scent sensation Tees with long sleeves Return my adoration Chanel or Dior Neither my fascination But with that from...
Andrew Sullivan
Nov 7, 20211 min read


An Appeal to Impatience
Ask me a question What to do if you are to stand here? Twiddle your thumbs until they break Tap your feet to stave that encroaching cloud...
Andrew Sullivan
Oct 30, 20212 min read


Lost World
Look at her Deeply Further Past those caverns The soul behind a cloak of blue It is deep but more desperate You cannot fathom She cannot...
Andrew Sullivan
Oct 2, 20212 min read


The Inside Outsider
The social death hangs heavy like a damp cloak on thread - the living and the dead echoes with Joycean pang, But how about a different...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
Sep 16, 20213 min read
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