Category: Creative

i lie awake at night with my heart racing and with my brain catastrophising. i don’t know if it really counts as catastrophising though. how can it be if the waking nightmares i conjure aren’t far-fetched fantastical situations? everything i imagine is what i have been told by doctors could realistically be my future and […]

In a moment, your mind stops working.  By the second, it tries to process things.  Within minutes, you start denying—  That’s when sadness and confusion begin to kick in.  In hours, it feels like everything is falling from the sky.  As days turn to nights, and weeks go by,  You still suffer, but get used […]

1 2 3 4 5 six 7  Door closed, window closed, fan on. Check wardrobes to make sure nobody is inside. Close wardrobe doors. Check wardrobe doors are closed. Check again. Double check. Are you even trying? Check again.   1 2 3 4 5 six 7   Turn desk chair so it isn’t facing you. Check […]

Brittle leaves crack with the promise of lifein the paw of a Beast I’ve tracked for some time.We have long since mastered the dance of the hunt,I was sure of the kill like I was sure of the cut. I had met this Beast just once beforewhen I thought I’d lost the path of its […]

From the beginning you have been there. From the time at which I wake to the time I sleep you are there and   Unlike the experiences with which I fill my days that come and go as they please, you have stayed with me through it all as a constant    Companion. You bring me weakness […]

I deafened the moon out of orbit when I perched by your door, so I could only figure the shadow of Stitch on your coconut fibre mat. It was 1 am, the world had shifted to tomorrow, and I had no bars- so I pecked.  Your musk met me before you did- Summer holds both […]