Get Lost by Anonymous
Content warning: mental illness Donning stripy knee-length socks, three-quarter length trousers, turquoise high heels, a purple vest top, no bra (despite being well-endowed), and yellow sunnies, I think I look the bees an’ees. I am 27, wearing the get up of a...Third Sector by David Bone
We’re the third sector. Oh, you’re not familiar with us. That’s a shame. You see, we do a lot of work that would have previously been done by the state and, even further back than that, might have been done by the family unit. Care provision, support...Lessons in Hiding by Ellen Storey
“Love your scarf … that colour really suits you.” My gaze falls downwards. Sparks fly from the smouldering images my friend has inadvertently stoked. I’m back in an eleven-year-old head again. Oh dear Lord. Looks like my private anticipation of Hades over the past few...The Worst View in the World by Jayne Marshall
Everyone warned me that I should lie, and so I did. Upon arriving at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport, I carefully rehearse the untruths I had devised on the plane. I repeat them slowly and quietly before reaching the stern-faced border control officer where they fall...I Lands by Alexis Keir
‘Sometimes we lose one of our own because we do not tell them enough that no matter how far they have been flung to the ends of the universe we still love them.’ Witi Ihimaera, The Dream Swimmer “He should be swinging in trees in the Congo.” I stood stock-still in my...