MistakenMagic

My name is Rebecca, I'm a twenty-year-old English Literature undergrad at Durham University. My poems have been featured in the Raving Dove, YM Poetry, and Cadaverine online magazines. In 2009 I was commended in the Foyle Young Poet of the Year Award and my poems have been published in several anthologies by United Press Ltd. My writing brings me so much joy and I hope it brings joy to other people :) Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Mistaken_Magic

Right now, I have 180 stories in 6 collections on the site. My stories have been read 147288 times and 110 of my stories have been cherry picked

My Stories

My Bookcase, 4am

Submitted on February 12, 2012 - 14:28 | 115 reads

Smoking in the Bath (A Pantoum)

Submitted on January 27, 2012 - 14:48 | 245 reads

I read Bukowski and Neruda in the early hours

Submitted on January 22, 2012 - 15:33 | 394 reads

The Underground Is So Mainstream

Submitted on January 8, 2012 - 14:50 | 247 reads

The Immaculate Accident

Submitted on January 1, 2012 - 14:43 | 296 reads

And Other Acts of Masochism

Submitted on December 29, 2011 - 13:26 | 223 reads

The Last Liberal Democrat

Submitted on December 12, 2011 - 15:15 | 281 reads

Misanthropist isn't in my predictive text.

Submitted on November 29, 2011 - 16:42 | 352 reads

Thank God I Didn’t Inherit My Father’s Nose

Submitted on November 22, 2011 - 16:59 | 301 reads

A Study in South Street

Submitted on November 6, 2011 - 15:48 | 246 reads

Pour A Little Salt, We Were Never Here

Submitted on October 20, 2011 - 17:16 | 323 reads

On Turning Twenty

Submitted on October 7, 2011 - 15:28 | 304 reads

A List of Things I Would Do to James McAvoy

Submitted on September 22, 2011 - 21:26 | 537 reads

Unexpected Intrusions of Beauty

Submitted on September 9, 2011 - 21:02 | 502 reads

Dali's Clock

Submitted on August 21, 2011 - 16:43 | 561 reads

Alors, On Danse

Submitted on August 4, 2011 - 16:50 | 434 reads

Bad Writing Prize (Inspiration Point)

Submitted on August 2, 2011 - 22:02 | 271 reads

There Will Be No Other End of the World

Submitted on July 10, 2011 - 19:43 | 419 reads

Wind Chimes in North America

Submitted on June 26, 2011 - 18:03 | 699 reads

Lindsay

Submitted on June 9, 2011 - 18:26 | 346 reads

Learning Curve

Submitted on May 22, 2011 - 18:59 | 781 reads

Our Conspiracy of Flightlessness

Submitted on May 2, 2011 - 15:53 | 818 reads

Who's Afraid of Pablo Neruda?

Submitted on April 10, 2011 - 15:12 | 618 reads

Always Summer

Submitted on March 29, 2011 - 10:57 | 469 reads

Reading at the Lowe Library

Submitted on March 22, 2011 - 18:19 | 531 reads

Miles to Go Before I Sleep

Submitted on March 7, 2011 - 13:02 | 571 reads

We're All Mad Here

Submitted on February 28, 2011 - 20:19 | 402 reads

Hide and Seek

Submitted on February 21, 2011 - 16:44 | 588 reads

Postscript

Submitted on January 20, 2011 - 12:05 | 519 reads

Homesickness

Submitted on January 6, 2011 - 23:31 | 447 reads

A Home-coming

Submitted on December 28, 2010 - 18:59 | 461 reads

Coming Home

Submitted on December 19, 2010 - 15:57 | 456 reads

Full Stop.

Submitted on December 9, 2010 - 16:54 | 504 reads

First Snow

Submitted on November 30, 2010 - 10:18 | 486 reads

After You

Submitted on November 17, 2010 - 10:57 | 655 reads

Anniversary

Submitted on November 12, 2010 - 01:30 | 472 reads

Hall of Mirrors (Durham Ramblings)

Submitted on November 7, 2010 - 14:39 | 434 reads

Donnian

Submitted on November 2, 2010 - 15:53 | 557 reads

Simon Armitage at the Gala Theatre

Submitted on October 24, 2010 - 18:14 | 584 reads

Foreign Country

Submitted on October 17, 2010 - 17:00 | 615 reads

Relic

Submitted on October 11, 2010 - 15:03 | 570 reads

First Letter Home

Submitted on October 5, 2010 - 12:45 | 508 reads

Le Grand Départ

Submitted on September 29, 2010 - 20:34 | 549 reads

These Are The Days

Submitted on September 26, 2010 - 16:36 | 507 reads

Unbreakable

Submitted on September 14, 2010 - 13:32 | 618 reads

Our Love

Submitted on September 6, 2010 - 09:24 | 787 reads

Unclaimed

Submitted on August 29, 2010 - 20:00 | 639 reads

Simplicity (Inspiration Point)

Submitted on August 18, 2010 - 09:49 | 670 reads

Forgetting

Submitted on August 15, 2010 - 21:01 | 623 reads

Disenchanted

Submitted on August 10, 2010 - 17:03 | 655 reads

End Point

Submitted on August 3, 2010 - 11:53 | 661 reads

Warning

Submitted on July 5, 2010 - 13:35 | 865 reads

Shadowless

Submitted on June 29, 2010 - 14:15 | 676 reads

Libra

Submitted on June 21, 2010 - 10:41 | 599 reads

Maladaptive Coping Behaviour

Submitted on June 14, 2010 - 14:47 | 667 reads

Amnesia

Submitted on June 8, 2010 - 13:57 | 804 reads

Lucid Dreams In Moscow

Submitted on May 26, 2010 - 15:30 | 639 reads

Ton Autre Amour

Submitted on May 19, 2010 - 15:10 | 667 reads

The Prodigals

Submitted on April 27, 2010 - 17:43 | 684 reads

"Verboten"

Submitted on April 15, 2010 - 09:45 | 661 reads

Ritardando

Submitted on April 7, 2010 - 20:15 | 699 reads

Summer

Submitted on March 30, 2010 - 12:58 | 735 reads

Supernova

Submitted on March 24, 2010 - 19:24 | 656 reads

Captive

Submitted on March 15, 2010 - 10:55 | 695 reads

An Insomniac's Dawn

Submitted on March 8, 2010 - 15:57 | 782 reads

Block

Submitted on February 15, 2010 - 14:04 | 682 reads

Dreaming Spires

Submitted on February 8, 2010 - 15:42 | 779 reads

Post-Trauma

Submitted on February 1, 2010 - 16:29 | 854 reads

Inner Demons

Submitted on January 25, 2010 - 15:34 | 753 reads

Clean Slate

Submitted on January 19, 2010 - 16:58 | 627 reads

Untouchable

Submitted on January 12, 2010 - 18:34 | 742 reads

Losing It

Submitted on January 5, 2010 - 12:42 | 759 reads

Dream

Submitted on December 27, 2009 - 21:17 | 764 reads

The Muse Transplant

Submitted on December 10, 2009 - 15:14 | 800 reads

Othello (Inspiration Point)

Submitted on November 26, 2009 - 23:19 | 978 reads

Remainders

Submitted on October 26, 2009 - 15:37 | 860 reads

Paper, Scissors, Rock

Submitted on October 19, 2009 - 14:49 | 790 reads

Wound

Submitted on October 5, 2009 - 14:06 | 774 reads

Eva

Submitted on September 30, 2009 - 15:16 | 839 reads

You Are

Submitted on September 23, 2009 - 20:52 | 873 reads

Abomination

Submitted on September 14, 2009 - 14:37 | 884 reads

Perpendicular

Submitted on September 9, 2009 - 14:04 | 1007 reads

Meaning

Submitted on August 28, 2009 - 11:43 | 804 reads

Anticipation

Submitted on August 19, 2009 - 09:48 | 785 reads

Blossoming

Submitted on August 4, 2009 - 10:21 | 1052 reads

Something to Say

Submitted on July 29, 2009 - 14:44 | 799 reads

Diminuendo

Submitted on July 7, 2009 - 19:22 | 957 reads

Aftermath

Submitted on July 2, 2009 - 18:41 | 775 reads

Une Nuit Blanche

Submitted on June 28, 2009 - 12:38 | 1011 reads

I Remember

Submitted on June 23, 2009 - 17:55 | 785 reads

Growing Apart

Submitted on June 15, 2009 - 14:31 | 1035 reads

Spoils of War

Submitted on June 1, 2009 - 15:16 | 777 reads

Talking About The Weather

Submitted on May 21, 2009 - 16:51 | 833 reads

Wordsworth's Secret

Submitted on May 12, 2009 - 12:01 | 941 reads

Quarter to Zero Hour

Submitted on May 7, 2009 - 16:34 | 971 reads

When You Left

Submitted on April 27, 2009 - 17:37 | 805 reads

Drummer Boy

Submitted on April 21, 2009 - 13:13 | 862 reads

The Radio

Submitted on April 8, 2009 - 08:57 | 855 reads

Writing Poetry

Submitted on April 2, 2009 - 11:10 | 857 reads

This Poet's Hands

Submitted on March 30, 2009 - 20:33 | 836 reads

The Equinox Parade

Submitted on March 25, 2009 - 17:15 | 1183 reads

Demands

Submitted on March 23, 2009 - 17:21 | 841 reads

The Cuckoo's Nest

Submitted on March 18, 2009 - 16:15 | 776 reads

We Rowed

Submitted on March 16, 2009 - 17:04 | 802 reads

Body Language

Submitted on March 9, 2009 - 16:06 | 955 reads

Friendly Fire

Submitted on February 26, 2009 - 11:21 | 1123 reads

Tuesday's Child

Submitted on February 23, 2009 - 15:03 | 881 reads

Intensive Care

Submitted on February 18, 2009 - 14:49 | 868 reads

Seventeen Going On Twenty-Five

Submitted on February 12, 2009 - 15:44 | 1086 reads

February

Submitted on February 9, 2009 - 15:06 | 898 reads

Birds, Bees and Butteflies

Submitted on February 3, 2009 - 13:57 | 851 reads

Writing Home

Submitted on January 28, 2009 - 16:20 | 908 reads

Peter Pan Poems

Submitted on January 26, 2009 - 15:30 | 3182 reads

Until Spring

Submitted on January 22, 2009 - 16:22 | 861 reads

Resolutions

Submitted on January 19, 2009 - 15:58 | 860 reads

Acceptance

Submitted on December 6, 2008 - 10:06 | 1029 reads

Ritual

Submitted on December 6, 2008 - 10:05 | 907 reads

A History Student Speaks About the Holocaust

Submitted on December 3, 2008 - 15:52 | 959 reads

Poet, Heal Thyself

Submitted on November 29, 2008 - 10:43 | 996 reads

A Little Dream of Me

Submitted on November 24, 2008 - 20:38 | 1061 reads

Dark Orchid (A Poem for Baby P)

Submitted on November 21, 2008 - 15:06 | 1335 reads

No Evil

Submitted on November 15, 2008 - 13:42 | 935 reads

Do Poppies Grow at Auschwitz?

Submitted on November 15, 2008 - 13:16 | 1172 reads

Remembrance

Submitted on November 9, 2008 - 09:01 | 971 reads

Conversation With My Thirteen-Year-Old Self

Submitted on November 6, 2008 - 09:28 | 966 reads

Lipstick On Your Collar

Submitted on November 1, 2008 - 18:14 | 981 reads

Henryk

Submitted on October 27, 2008 - 09:51 | 935 reads

What was it like?

Submitted on October 24, 2008 - 18:59 | 884 reads

The Survivor

Submitted on October 20, 2008 - 14:03 | 898 reads

Guardian Angel (Revised)

Submitted on October 18, 2008 - 09:15 | 964 reads

Siren

Submitted on October 15, 2008 - 16:34 | 981 reads

Icarus

Submitted on October 13, 2008 - 19:20 | 993 reads

Pear-Shaped

Submitted on October 6, 2008 - 20:45 | 968 reads

Pandora

Submitted on September 26, 2008 - 14:05 | 952 reads

Flatliner

Submitted on September 25, 2008 - 19:08 | 947 reads

The Fortune Teller

Submitted on September 20, 2008 - 20:50 | 1013 reads

Indigo and Gold

Submitted on September 20, 2008 - 20:33 | 990 reads

Queen of Hearts

Submitted on September 18, 2008 - 20:39 | 973 reads

Under My Skin

Submitted on September 17, 2008 - 20:28 | 961 reads

Before I say I Love You

Submitted on September 15, 2008 - 17:15 | 2325 reads

Perfection

Submitted on September 7, 2008 - 09:33 | 989 reads

Flashbacks

Submitted on September 7, 2008 - 09:18 | 964 reads

The Poet Who Fell in Love

Submitted on September 2, 2008 - 16:54 | 1035 reads

The Day the Poetry Stopped

Submitted on September 2, 2008 - 16:53 | 1005 reads

The Condemned

Submitted on September 2, 2008 - 16:51 | 960 reads

Anything to Forget

Submitted on August 29, 2008 - 10:08 | 923 reads

This Prison

Submitted on August 29, 2008 - 10:06 | 1042 reads

The Pianist

Submitted on August 22, 2008 - 11:50 | 1061 reads

Rain in July

Submitted on August 20, 2008 - 11:01 | 989 reads

Bittersweet

Submitted on August 20, 2008 - 10:58 | 1011 reads

Beauty?

Submitted on August 20, 2008 - 10:54 | 1015 reads

Unidentified Falling Object

Submitted on August 13, 2008 - 20:09 | 1198 reads

i miss u.

Submitted on August 13, 2008 - 20:07 | 1185 reads

Juliet

Submitted on August 13, 2008 - 20:05 | 932 reads

Love is Blind

Submitted on July 31, 2008 - 08:41 | 912 reads

Through the Bars

Submitted on July 31, 2008 - 08:38 | 950 reads

Fallen Angel

Submitted on July 28, 2008 - 16:33 | 969 reads

Infatuation

Submitted on July 22, 2008 - 10:34 | 1038 reads

Writer's Block

Submitted on July 19, 2008 - 10:42 | 963 reads

Harvey

Submitted on July 18, 2008 - 10:21 | 989 reads

Murphy's Law

Submitted on July 18, 2008 - 10:19 | 921 reads

The Softest Music

Submitted on July 18, 2008 - 10:17 | 1035 reads

The Bully

Submitted on July 12, 2008 - 16:34 | 982 reads

Loosen My Grip

Submitted on July 8, 2008 - 10:19 | 1232 reads

Moving On

Submitted on July 8, 2008 - 10:18 | 1040 reads

This Business

Submitted on July 7, 2008 - 11:29 | 974 reads

Euphoria

Submitted on July 7, 2008 - 11:27 | 981 reads

Enigma

Submitted on July 4, 2008 - 10:47 | 1006 reads

Revelation

Submitted on July 2, 2008 - 14:08 | 1016 reads

Cursed

Submitted on July 2, 2008 - 14:05 | 1137 reads

A Cautionary Tale

Submitted on July 2, 2008 - 14:03 | 980 reads

Hospital Bed Diaries

Submitted on July 2, 2008 - 14:01 | 1023 reads

Curiosity and the Cat

Submitted on July 2, 2008 - 13:59 | 1049 reads

Guardian Angel

Submitted on July 2, 2008 - 13:57 | 1021 reads

Insomnia

Submitted on July 2, 2008 - 13:54 | 1026 reads

Erin

Submitted on July 2, 2008 - 13:52 | 1053 reads

Somewhere Only We Know

Submitted on July 2, 2008 - 13:49 | 998 reads

Eden

Submitted on July 2, 2008 - 13:47 | 1143 reads

Half-Light

Submitted on July 2, 2008 - 13:43 | 1145 reads

Star Struck

Submitted on July 2, 2008 - 13:41 | 1040 reads