by Helen Ivory | Feb 4, 2026 | Featured, Prose
No mental image I have a friend who designs cards for friends every Christmas. She carves the pattern into lino, maybe a robin, or a heart shaped a bit like a beetroot. I often feel like a lino tile someone has hollowed – not in a violent...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 3, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Windless Day Night’s white noise is over. Day arises to stillness. Light crouches behind windows, presses through chinks. Dawn’s chorus conceals a speck of silence that casts a shadow stretching vast across the floor. Double-checking in the cereal...
by Sairah Ahsan | Feb 2, 2026 | Featured, Filmpoems
British Columbia, Canada, 2021: We are surviving the vagaries of climate change 1. Heat dome: I’ve had to water my plants two times a day so they don’t die. 2. Five hundred and ninety-five people died as a direct result of extreme heat. 3. Lytton broke...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 2, 2026 | Featured, Flash Fiction, Prose
Unnatural Migration When Mom flew off with the Canada geese you made me promise that we would never leave one another. Ever. I wanted to protect you, even though you were an irritating baby sister who I had to bribe with candy and pop, so I could hang...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 1, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Flock In the charity shop I try on a coat flocked with fake shearling, shaved-soft almost: fibres fired onto plastic to fool the wrist. At home I snap it. A dust of fur lifts, hangs, then drifts onto the draining board, the bulb, the bruised...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 31, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Letter to L You’re a character, a Roman numeral, an internet meme. Descendant from a peasant’s crook or cattle prod, you’re the twelfth letter of the alphabet, but missing from a baker’s dozen. You’re in every email I ever wrote, appearing in...
