Fiction | I Feel Bad About My Watch by Róisín Lanigan
Róisín Lanigan I Feel Bad About My Watch When I was a teenager — a time which seems simultaneously eons…
Fiction | Stained With Salt Water by Sophie Hampton
Sophie Hampton Stained with Salt Water The North Sea is shaped like a funnel so when a storm breaks from…
Fiction | Succulent by Alex Aspden
Alex Aspden Succulent We’re having a drink at the old man pub on the corner when she asks me if…
Fiction | The Earring by Colm McDermott
Colm McDermott The Earring … Salted almonds. Spicy potato wedges. Green curry wantons. Sitting before your dressing table mirror, drawing…
Fiction | The Toy House by Niamh Cullen
Niamh Cullen The Toy House Two stories. No, three. Four, says Molly, standing on the bed to reach the bookshelves,…
Fiction | Hair by Daniel O’Connor
Daniel O’Connor Hair At hometime, other mummies would talk to his mummy just so they could bathe their fingers in…
Fiction | Rare Bird by Lauren Sarazen
Lauren Sarazen Rare Bird … “You want to know how to breathe fire?” He was talking to a girl too…
Essay | Kingsley and the Women by Malcolm Forbes
Malcolm Forbes Kingsley and the Women Last year marked the centenary of the birth of Kingsley Amis, the finest British…
Fiction | What’s My Name? by Gary Grace
Gary Grace What’s My Name? … I wasn’t long “off the boat” in the States before I’d become a parody…
Adapting Murakami & Animation as Reality – An Interview with Pierre Földes
Pierre Földes Adapting Murakami & Animation as Reality Pierre Földes on his new film ‘Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman’. Blind Willow,…
Fiction | Between Weathers by Katherine Robinson
Katherine Robinson Between Weathers Mara was walking home from the hotel when she heard the alarm. She ran down the…
Essay | Blackgirl on Mars by Lesley-Ann Brown [Extract]
Lesley-Ann Brown Blackgirl on Mars I decided to go to plant school. It’s not a physical school with humans as…
Poetry | Two Poems by Rob A. Mackenzie
Rob A. Mackenzie Two Poems … Oriental Delight The facade may resemble a run-down bookies bolted onto a gun-running estate,…
Fiction | Brad Pitt’s Body in Thelma & Louise by Chris Connolly
Chris Connolly Brad Pitt’s Body in Thelma & Louise She looks at his body. She hasn’t been near a body…
Fiction | In the Dark by Sorcha Hamilton
Sorcha Hamilton In the Dark … He sat in the red armchair all evening, drinking cans and smoking. In his…
Fiction | Islam Inc. by Youssef Rakha [Extract]
Youssef Rakha Islam Inc. … It occurred to me that, on an evening like this in the late seventies, when…
Poetry | Two Poems by Scott Elder
Scott Elder Two Poems ….. In the Maelström First the fissure, then the fall one little cog has given up…
Fiction | The Weathermen Were On Strike by JL Bogenschneider
JL Bogenschneider The Weathermen Were On Strike Spokane Daily Chronicle, Mar. 13 1948 Did I ever tell you about…
Poetry | Fogou by C.P. Nield
Fogou C.P. Nield “Pendene Vowe… a holl or deepe vaute in the grounde, wherinto the sea floweth at high water,…
Fiction | The Uses of Beauty by Hugh Dunkerley
Hugh Dunkerley The Uses of Beauty …. When Clare wakes, the car is moving along a wide valley between fields…
Poetry | Four Poems by Georgio Russell
Georgio Russell Four Poems … By the Bimini Docks Another ten-seat ferry carries newcomers northbound to these shanty towns, gliding…
Essay | Poetic Rhythm and the Sonority of Being by Raymond Shorthouse
Raymond Shorthouse Poetic Rhythm and the Sonority of Being . . In contemporary philosophical debate there is increasing interest in…
Fiction | The Catch by Sarah Turner
Sarah Turner The Catch It’s a long time since Richard’s seen his father. There are reasons, but he doesn’t…
Poetry | Farouk by Yvonne Green
Yvonne Green Farouk But, I asked my mum, how could he have eaten 40 quail at one sitting? he being…
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