Darling by Hana Tzou

you are a sailboat, love, bright porcelain and coral blue. you put your body to the wind and ride it don’t fight it let it take control. darling, you are a city gray, shoulders against the rain, comfort to the masses. you rush through the streets with a savior’s willow, picking up fallen sheets as […]

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Trip to Arran by Maria Sledmere

There are these pictures which exist on my phone like postage stamps, each one waiting for its destination. We took the early morning ferry, watching behind the silver wake, its twin possibilities of listening to our thoughtless words and a song like wind chimes sprinkling the things we said with a certain glister—which I would […]

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Wake by Darby Joyce

I understood immediately why he had picked her as his model for the week. Despite my best efforts to avoid the thought, I could imagine him leaning lovingly over her, his shaggy, greasy hair concealing his eyes as he perfected every detail. He would paint her lips that alluring velvet red and dust her face […]

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Star by Kayla King

A fruit is really just a seed and once it grows and seeps with sweet blood they will want to sink carnivorous teeth into its soft flesh. Wait too long and that glowing orb will fade and falter, shrink to skin and spill its insides, trickling through heart and soul into thick syrup; homemade jam. […]

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