Pick of the day
Winter Dreams
Posted by markashley on Sun, 12 Sep 2004
I dream
like fish in spring
of slanted green shaded
sun bed haze
ripples of silence
through pollen mist
and rustle reed
those dragonfly days
Story of the week
Risky Business
Posted by Tipp Hex on Tue, 15 Jan 2019
Like a raven shot in mid-flight, the black object pirouetted through the air and landed onto the car's windscreen, bounced once and fell heavily onto the hot tarmac.Read morePoem of the week
Features
LUCY CAVENDISH FICTION PRIZE 2019
'The Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize was founded in 2010 by Professor Janet Todd OBE, then President of the College.
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STORY AND POEM OF THE MONTH
Our Story and Poem of the Month for December, very kindly chosen by rjnewlyn:
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Bee's Journey
Picks of the Month
Words
Posted by rosaliekempthorne on Tue, 25 Dec 2018
All I want for Christmas is words.
Just a scatter of words. Just a handful.
I find my eyes drawn back towards the phone on the wall in the hallway – a retro scene, a lost time, our lost time…
I wait for it to ring.
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Instead a silver parcel at my doorstep. Shiny, light-catching foil paper, with a curly white ribbon about it. A little card on the top.
I crouch to read the card.
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Spring a Butterfly
Posted by Di_Hard on Sun, 23 Dec 2018
Dusty cocoon of box
tight packed through warmer days
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