The Moonchild

Author’s Note: This very short dramatic work was originally published by The Hooghly Review. Additionally, in their rejection of the … More

Helpless Devil of the Mind

Reading: Armadale by Wilkie Collins / Life With Picasso by Francoise Gilot / Everyman Pocket Poets: Art and Artists “Beware of … More

The Husk of a Dozen Moths

We pulled the cap off that once quiet evening and choked on its medicine. The leg bone came popping out … More

Ogygia

Nobody can save me. Not from myself, nor the elements. Thunder electrocutes my heart. Utterly barbecued —The grill marks resemble … More

Vampires in the Closet: Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market’

Author’s Note: This is an academic article I wrote on Christina Rossetti’s poem, Goblin Market.

In Anticipation of the Roo-Crew

Sally Rooney’s first novel, Conversations With Friends, begins with the lacklustre, “Bobby and I first met Melissa at a poetry night … More

There’s Womb at the Inn

Ten years ago, I was sitting in my media studies class, buzzing with the urge to run away. I had … More

Mining the Red Wheelbarrow

so much dependsupon a red wheelbarrow glazed with rainwater beside the whitechickens —The Red Wheelbarrow, William Carlos Williams When I … More

They Don’t Pack Light, Do They?

Hen sat at the bus shelter in a blueberry coat with a tissue tucked in the right sleeve. Her carer … More

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Journey into Folk Horror: Young Goodman Brown (1835)

First published anonymously in the April 1835 edition of The New England Review, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown is considered … More