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THE BLACK DOOR
By Senan de Léas The Black Door stalks me silently, throughout the busy scenes. Ever present, always watching, never straying far from...
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WITHOUT YOU
By Louise O'Neil I told the crows about you today They listened to me, turning their heads from side to side Their white-rimmed eyes...
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TO BE A FRIEND
By Scott Campbell I knelt before the winged red mass, It whispered; you were a friend? Yes, to many With the cruel vigour of an addict ...
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NATURE'S GIFT
By Linda Burnett Pillars of birch cast vaulting spears into a witchy sky. Gothic cloisters greet even the most pagan feet. Birdsong...
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DESCENT
By Rosie Arcane Betrayed by the light, it watched you fall, so the darkness and the damned began to call. At least here the monsters...
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COUNTING
By Stacy Clair Fifteen pools of blood on the floor Six pieces of splintered wood from the front door The glass is shattered around me...
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ZOOM
By Anthony Watts [i.m. Sgt JL, shot down in his Hurricane on 17th September 1940] Somewhere, some distant relative is nurturing her...
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BARELY EVEN STARTED
By Mark C. Hewitt Sometimes it’s easy to forget that one is not in fact a biological experiment. By which I mean I haven’t the faintest...
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INSOMNIA
By Samantha Barclay Slipping confusion wrapped in blurred waking Clutching to fuzziness That steals away Disastrous, illicit clarity...
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RULING REPTILES
By Zoé Orfanos Lately my dreams have been endings, corpse-blunt and scaled, a crocodilian drag away from the light. But awake is not...
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YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED ON AIRPLANES
By Nicolette Daskalakis You are considered a weapon. Everyone you love will need to remain at a safe distance at the opposite side...
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FROM A DARK PLACE
By Malmacar When sometimes loneliness meets confusion, Behind the misdirection of sanity's illusion, Thats when the wrong answer comes to...
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HER AND ME
By Ruth Guest We are here now, Her and me Near lifeless, almost broken Only one will recover Repuzzled from these shards Recaptured from...
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THE SOUND OF IGNORANCE
By Katelynn Hutchinson A sound much like revolvers cracking Deafens a reject child. No longer does it feel the mirrors plastered to its...
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A SPIRIT WANDERS
By Susanne LaBrake Her mind travels again tonight along the path that leads down the cobbled streets to meadows dark, where lamprocapnos...
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SCREAM INTO NOTHING
By Sean Perrun Sleep is a strange thing To happen The vision folds at the corners The mind squares away And reality melts into The...
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CHOKE
By Oliver Carmichael Some mornings I wake to find his hands at the bottom of my bed, tapping fingertips, cracking knuckles. Some mornings...
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LOST CIVILISATION | BUTTERFLY
By N J Delmas They left me on the mountain top. Offerings laid at my frozen feet. A butterfly in a transparent case, coloured wings...
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SOUVENIR
By Mark Totterdell There’s a briny tang of rock samphire, a slight fragrance of sweet fennel, and I can taste the sea beet’s bitterness...
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SOMETHING ABOUT A WOUND LEARNING TO FEED
By Yago Wasn’t it at a bus stop or something where someone had used a white board marker to write out a prophecy about evil the...
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