Picks of the Month

February

Cherry
Pick of the Month

More Guns

1. In America, land of the gun they say they're arming everyone. If they want less shootings, its agreed, more guns, my god, is what they need. 2...

January

Gold cherry
Story of the week
Pick of the Month

Removed for submission

Image: © José Manuel Suárez/Wikimedia Commons
Gold cherry
Poem of the week
Pick of the Month

Traffic

How many new cousins have you got? Four. Three with scars and sallow eyes. How many new sisters today? Dad's brought six. Four speak French and...
2 likes

December

Gold cherry
Story of the week
Pick of the Month

The agony and the ecstacy

Back in the early nineties when ecstasy really was ecstasy not that tepid shit that they sell to the kids these days I smuggled a couple of tabs into...
2 likes

November

Gold cherry
Poem of the week
Pick of the Month

At the Arts Council in Manchester

And to think I was just about to complain About the weakness of the coffee when my head turned through the glass to witness the hearse arguing in...
1 likes
Gold cherry
Story of the week
Pick of the Month

Poppy

It’s my birthday today. I’m eight years old. My name is Poppy Rogers. I was born at twenty past nine in the morning on November the 11 th . Mum says...
1 likes

October

Cherry
Pick of the Month

The Blue Books Restored: Fragments 1A to 70 (part 4 of 4)

Diane cast her spell, like casting a boulder in a pool of Reality and causing it to ripple. The force of her will made manifest.
Cherry
Pick of the Month

Liam Anders

He got up before dawn. Each day. Crawled out of bed to the stinging sound of an alarm going off beside his bed. Woke himself with stabbing cold water...

September

Gold cherry
Story of the week
Pick of the Month

relapse prevention therapy

When I was five I was raped. He said it was a game. It wouldn’t hurt. These are clichés. I sometimes tell my students that fiction often isn’t...

Pages