Personal Platform: A Single Moment
This short story was influenced by Ali Smith’s Artful, a novel which plays with time,…
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Personal Platform: ‘Late’
It’s late autumn; the leaves are nestled under tree trunks or half shoved into dirty drains….
Personal Platform: Could you turn down the silence, please?
This piece is a personal reflection of what loneliness feels like. It has been written…
Personal Platform: ‘I said it first. And last’
This piece is about the first time that you say you love your partner and…
Personal Platform: The Boy Who Thought He Was A Bumble Bee.
This short story reflects on Schopenhauer’s philosophy. Schopenhauer famously suggested that life is a perpetual…
Personal Platform: ‘Anorexia’
I was only twelve. I was overwhelmed. And it’s a story that we know all…
The House Upon the Hill
Once upon a lonely hill, There stood a house with painted doors, A box beneath…
Clasina Maria Hoornik
I remember when the boatman found you Floating In the Schelde, And plucked you out…
Final Stroke – A Found Poem
As anyone who has taken the Modernism module whilst studying English Literature at Queen Mary…