A scream escaped her lips the moment she parted them. The man before her winced as he covered his ears with his hands. She immediately closed her mouth. The silence that ensued was more disturbing than the shriek had …
Anger. Burning, red hot anger. An evil substance which flowed as freely through the veins of the boy as the music through his head. He referred to one as ‘The Poison’ and one as ‘The Antidote’, but they were interchangeable. …
I stare at the light green wall. I can’t remember why I am here. Who am I? I am told by people in scrubs that my name is Louisa. The name brings back hints of memories but nothing more. So …
I swirl the froth on the top of my coffee cup with the tip of the silver spoon. It looks delicious; light brown chocolate sifted carefully over the white milk. Usually I would really enjoy a freshly brewed cup of …
“Why do you keep getting us in these situations?” I asked silently. No reply. I thought for a second he shrugged, as if to say “Hey, I’m just doing my job,” but it was probably just my imagination. I gave …
Self control – Joel Compton had never really had much of it. He liked to believe he knew exactly when and where it all started becoming a bit loose – the day he first laid eyes on a picture of …
The icy wind whipped at my bare, tear soaked face as I hid in the shadows of Autumn’s dusk. With my head bowed and my hands stuffed firmly into my jacket, I fought off the cold air as I briskly …
Tony waited silently on a bench in the corner of the Robot and Parrot pub. He fidgeted with a ceramic coaster advertising something called Ye Olde Porcine Skin Fragments, pausing occasionally to run his hand over the itchy brown stubble …
I saw it coming. Spreading. Inescapable like the plague. I should’ve known it would’ve been the biology major. They aim for the root of things. “So are you two-“ his finger twirls between us like twisting spaghetti “a thing?” “Jesus,” …
I sit patiently at a café. It’s been five minutes and I can’t help but wonder if I’ve been stood up by my first official online date. Eventually, he arrives with a barrage of apologies and plonks himself opposite me. …
February 4th – June 7th 2010 You changed your relationship status from ‘it’s complicated’ to ‘single’ and I knew it was time to make my move. Long had I observed your failing romance, the scattering of posts that were …
“Romance” isn’t about the boy or the girl or relationships. It’s a moment. Where you open up and you fall in love with Life all over again. Here are five of mine. No. 5# Summer, Oxford, England I was …
There’s a single question which hovers above my head. Am I in love or in attachment? Love has been explained to me as wishing someone happiness in their life. Attachment is a need to be with another person. These two …
Dinner For Stew There was once a day, when I tried to dine, At a restaurant, quite the fav’rite of mine. I gazed at the menu, so many morsels, Many of which I had eaten, of coursels. I go there …
Babyface – A Poem for Plainwhite Tom You bought me a tomato on our first date. You were the first person I had occupied space with who didn’t question my love of eating them like apples fallen from trees. You …
Polyphony//If Only You were my modern day manifestation of the lyrics of “A Kiss To Build A Dream On” by Louis Armstrong. I sang it so much that it defeated time and my grandparents caught on and told me …
With the release of our first performance poetry award there was a chance the latest prose competition would get overshadowed. Instead, we got one of our strongest short lists to date. A big thank you needs to go out to …
“Try it again. A little bit louder, Gavin,” called the director from her front row seat, glancing up from her meticulous notes as a scrawny teenager cleared his throat on the stage and looked about again with wide eyes. The …
The Aristocrats is a joke that comedians love telling to shock other comedians, so it is extremely graphic and not for the easily offended. I first heard about The Aristocrats from the documentary of the same name, in which the …
In a small dingy bar, people from across the town had gathered up after a day’s work for a moment of peace. The next day, many of them were going to elect the new mayor among the two nobles who …