After the Orchard by ANNETTE BROOK
Like a bitter tea.
Words: Annette Brook
Illustration: Joanna Layla
A Limitless Forest by JAMES WHITHAM
Like a boy, pretending to be an aeroplane.
Words: James Whitham
Issue 13 cover design: Joanna Layla
A Little Bit Sketchy by EMMA JONES
ATTIC ROOM. MEAL FOR ONE. CANNED LAUGHTER. EMPTINESS. BELLYACHE PILLS.
Words: Emma Jones
Illustration: Michael Levett
A Life Lesson on the Subject of Flying Without Wings by AMBER GIBNEY
“Louis Walsh is my uncle,” she said.
Words: Amber Gibney
Out of Sight, Out of Mind by JO GARWOOD
You made me go to Milton Keynes.
Words: Jo Garwood
Illustration: Felicity Wood
Cultural Exchange by INGRID WAKELING
‘Dead bodies are buried under the cherry trees’ the old folks say, and laugh until they can hardly breathe.
Words: Ingrid Wakeling
Issue 13 Cover Illustration: Joanna Layla
Bounty: A Duologue by ANNETTE BROOK
Respect your mother – fuck off; respect your teacher – fuck off; respect yourself – fucking obviously!
Words: Annette Brook
Illustrations: Elliot Blacklock
Word Gets Around by JO GARWOOD
Tilly was staring at Kelly Jones, her face a mask of buck-toothed rapture.
Words: Jo Garwood
Illustration: Felicity Wood
Mind The Gap by ALEX FRANCOIS
The strumpets of the rail system he called them.
Words: Alex Francois
Illustration: Felcity Wood
Odes by JO GARWOOD
The pop of the cork – red wine, don’t tease me!
Words: Jo Garwood
Illustration: Jimi Gherkin
On Cider by ANNETTE BROOK
A parrot in a parachute, a lab-rat at a carboot.
Words: Annette Brook
Illustration: Charlotte Dingle
Bones by EMMA JONES
Measure my long-leggedness by slender taping femurs?
Words: Emma Jones
Illustration: Annika Reed
Sleeper Service by JAMES WHITHAM
Two coins shaken from his pocket rolled in circles on the floor.
Words: James Whitham
Illustration: Emily Grundy
Byron’s Timing by JO GARWOOD
A book lay open on the grass, pages fluttering in the wind, beneath her dangling hand.
Words: Jo Garwood
Illustration: Vivienne Watson
Hometime 159 by PAULA FAIRCLOTH
…chewing gum stalactites and crisp packet shrubberies…
Words: Paula Faircloth
Statues (a ballade) by ANNETTE BROOK
Gormley’s willies fill you with dread..
Words: Annette Brook
Issue 11 cover design: Felicity Wood
Panic Bells It’s Red Alert by AMBER GIBNEY
…an unlikely siren with the pop sensibilities of a Swede and the mouth of Joe Pesci.
Words: Amber Gibney
Illustration: Rebecca Olajide
Bridge End Gardens by JO GARWOOD
Instead she listened to the little statue boy peeing into the pond
Words: Jo Garwood
Illustration: Annika Reed
The Statue / Fossils by JAMES WHITHAM
When they dig their gardens will they find little red brick wedding rings and calcite birthday candles and concrete flowers?
Words: James Whitham
Jeremy Kyle by EMMA JONES
..he looks sullen, charmless as a damp little denim spunk-rag.
Words: Emma Jones
Illustration: Emily Grundy
