The Communist’s Daughter
In the morning before waking, I dream of vast empty plains of flatland and red…
Browsing: Literature
Head Shop
Tedium was tip tapping on the pane of Gibbo’s day, the hours slouching into another…
Poetry: Chay Bowes
Three Miles South of Carlow Town Walk with me. Don’t speak. Come to the place…
L’Homme et … la Merde!
For the purpose of perspective, I should like to carry out a short comparative study…
Winter When Thy Face is Hid
I was so tired, Tuesday night. Don’t sleep well when I get that tired. I…
La Petite Mort
Hannah sat deep in thought waiting for the reception room’s red light to turn green…
Poetry: Kevin Higgins
‘Liberals’ & ‘Death’ Two words that strut confident of their own historical inevitability. Everyone in…
Poetry – Elliot Moriarty
Nicholas of Bari Another night fifth in a row unsettled but unfrozen thinking I get it I…
Toblerone
When you hear the phrase, “Subtropical paradise,” Longford is probably not what springs to mind.…
Poetry: Marc Di Saverio
THE MAN WITH A MICRO-CHIP IN HIS RIGHT HAND Stopping wantless under cherry blossoms He…
Ownership by Navlika Ramjee
Ownership You come into your own While words give hue and cry In the stillness…
Poem: Note From The Organisers
Note From The Organisers Feel free to turn up (or not) wearing a full suit…
Kafka’s Café
Levi ‘Lev’ Driscoll, wrote the odd sentence or two when creativity revealed itself to him.…
Fiction: Luigi’s Trip
My boss sent me looking for Luigi. One of his super-rich clients had been sucked…
Wonder Woman: The Baudelairean Ideal
Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) reshaped the trajectory of modern literature. In acknowledgement T.S. Eliot famously called…
Chef Death
“Take me off!” Dad directed all his anger at Mi Sun, an Asian nurse who…
Fiction: An Oligarch’s Wife
To sit quietly and take in the view was unusual for Alexander Seymionovitch. His tall…
My Approach to Literary Networking
My Approach to Literary Networking after Francois Villon Most days I’d rather be bundled into…
