Bottle Bank by Helen Pletts

Bottle Bank  A lean trousered scrabble;Pressed aside the green-breast-curve, toe-tippedArched form a-gape reaching,Visage-crimson-cold.A jagged white slit creases the cheek;And the human bright-blue-eyeEchoes love lost, the pricelessness of heart;Scattered,...

Flash fiction by Abbie Clark

RalfDiving from left to right and zig zagging across the floor sparks shot from his heels, Ralf had never felt so alive, as he flicked the prosthetic limbs that had neatly been attached by feather boa technology towards the centre of the dance floor everyone spread...

Leigh Pierce has a date

Date NightNo snow    no rain    no wayNowhereJust painBound by agony, to the couch of eternityFrom humble beginnings come humiliating endsA horrifying conclusion that can’t be stoppedWanting to leaveBut not able to – too scaredHaving to...

Bobby Parker has an unfinished manuscript

unfinished manuscripts (neglecting her needs) I got a bunch of hahahas in my underwear drawernext to a copy of Poetry For Fools and a half-smoked joint… I take them out and rattle them in the streets like neon chains advertising This New Time To Be Getting Along...

Rob Plath's found a hole in the universe

the hole in the universetoday i read in the newspaperthat scientists have discovered 6 billion trillion miles of emptiness out in space & how they are puzzledby the whole thingwhile i sit with a cigarette in handlooking up at the dark skysending my meek smoke...

New short fiction by Janet Yung

Dining Out“Do you want me to call an ambulance?”  The chubby manager of the all you can eat restaurant is seated on the floor next to Peter, the elderly patron, who’s barely had time to settle at the table waiting with his wife, Clara, while their two nieces have...