by Helen Ivory | Jun 15, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
High-Visibility The precondition for being a ghost is not only death but faith in an afterlife. Kit Fan. When I lost loved ones last year I thought my childhood fears would return. Sleeping in mum’s house waiting for the seen and felt, the...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 14, 2026 | Featured, Flash Fiction
Orange Spell An angry grandmother isn’t sure who she’s angry with. Everybody, nobody. Though she prefers to wear black, she casts a spell that turns people orange. We adapt quickly, eat from orange dishes, make orange bullets for orange guns. A...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 13, 2026 | Featured, Flash Fiction
Old Peculiar An Old Peculiar is slid back on the table. She returns to her book. The room is still. Outside night falls. This is her evening. Always the same. 5pm is when she gives up. She hoovers with violence. She hangs the laundry. She wipes...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 12, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Lesley Burt lives in Dorset. Her pamphlet, Mr & Mrs Andrews Reframed, was published by Templar Poetry in 2023, and Alice spins her Glitterball by Tears in the Fence in 2024.
by Helen Ivory | Jun 11, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
On sunday morning you lay together laughing She gets into your bed like when she was little. Flowers grow out of the wardrobe, moss claims the windowsill and a vine snakes its way to the bed post, climbing. You are laughing. Imagine she is...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 10, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
I had a leaf in my hair when I arrived the receptionist thought it was a hairclip I didn’t know how to tell her I’d been doing my pre-op under a beech tree, leaves drifting down like snow fungus like a great carved shelf bracketing the...
