We all dream of travelling around the world, but how many of us actually go out there and do it? The secret is to do …
A Letter to My Three Future Mes
Querida Ashamed Future Me, I hope you know that you’re not the only one making mistakes. Every piece of guilt you feel—for being absent in …
Choosing Between Tea or Poetry by Avantika Singhal
In my house, a cup of tea prepared by the 17-year-old me is appreciated more than my poetry. Strange women with magnifiers instead of eyes …
What Mums Mean to Us and How to Spoil Them This Mother’s Day
Your mother is not always the person who brought you into this world. Maybe she adopted you a few years in, or maybe she married …
Adventure by Zéandri Rautenbach
Crashing waves on the endless blue horizon, the skies from which rain pours after a long drought, this resembles his eyes that I involuntarily got …
Kissing Boys That Taste Like Ink and Spitting Fire in Motel Sinks by Lindsey Hobart
The first boy I kiss doesn’t write. He doesn’t understand why my bedroom walls tell stories that are sixteen years too long. He does not …
Four Feet Across by Alexis Campbell
“Do you think she can hear us?” There’s some snorting laughter behind me, but my back is to them. Somehow my brain was triggered awake …
Soundtrack for Saying Goodbye by Kris Dinnison
Weirdly I don’t remember where I got my first Smiths album. I don’t even really know how I discovered them. They certainly weren’t in rotation …
Unsung by Katherine Du
My cousin Yijiang wanted to be Christian and a Marine, the first hot pot my grandfather ever refused to swallow. “Your ancestors blinded themselves from …