A magazine for new writers

All the ways as a 28-year-old woman with a Masters in Psychology you could now effectively rewrite the ending 1. When Benjamin Braddock...

i am gathering up a jury of dead things; some you killed and some that died to make room for you. those dead things, they lie cold and...

Jane typed a new name onto the top of her CV: Cassandra Watts. At Education, she paused, and then typed the names of her children’s...

Plates of carefully selected finger food provide the only colour in the pub’s function room. Monochrome people stand around, splashes of...

The fresh cut grass; with no sign of mourn. The sunshine’s out, with no sign of mourn, and no sound of rain greeting my greenhouse. The...

Inside Esther’s shop the air was a deliberate cloying, grassy scent that stuck to the back of the throat. She liked to keep customers a...

I’m sat at the front on the wooden bench normally used in PE for step-ups or balancing on. We’re in the big hall, the floor is wood and...

The first time she noticed? Rachel couldn’t remember. A week ago, or ten. There, at the bottom of her short drive, a lone cigarette butt,...

Seven testimonials for a popular instructor Rose Adair came to her seminar prepared, with a typed lesson plan, spare pencils, enough...

Reasons why tonight I’m going to run away from the circus. 1. Whilst clowns without waxy make-up and oversized outfits don’t look...

The hospital room was crowded. Bed after bed pressed together with people lying like flies on their backs. At night you could hear them...

Elspeth is shaking out a checked blanket to lay on a sandy patch of beach when Beth yells, ‘Mummy, it’s Joe,’ and runs down to the gangly...

Chris Boren decided to take a stand, and along this barren strip of tarmac in the Black Rock Desert, a semi-arid region of lava beds and...

I came to show that I am no longer a failure. Their words coated with sweet nectarine. A false friendly encounter. But the voices inside...

I think it was a wise man that once said, the creative mind was a blessing and a curse, and how could that be anything but true, when it...

Beneath icepick rain and a moon shining blue, the old seaman wades through knee-deep saltwater. It drools inside his rubber boots,...

I strode hurriedly into the McDonalds I normally don’t eat junk food but I had only ten minutes for lunch The boss was killing me with...

Head down, long locks corralled by a baseball hat, the bassist plucks his Gibson Midtown as if oblivious to the adoring crowd. He’s not...

I live in two zones In one I see the damage that mental illness wreaks In the other I see through to the person beneath I see Tiffany...

Midnight. You roam the apartment restless, too tired and bronchitic to sleep. Every cough the kick of a sniper's rifle. You storm a beach...