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POEM: Sleepless Nights

i lie awake at night with my heart racing and with my brain catastrophising. i don’t know if it really counts as catastrophising though. how can it be if the waking nightmares i conjure aren’t far-fetched fantastical situations? everything i imagine is what i have been told by doctors could realistically be my future and […]

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POEM: Everything Goes On 

In a moment, your mind stops working.  By the second, it tries to process things.  Within minutes, you start denying—  That’s when sadness and confusion begin to kick in.  In hours, it feels like everything is falling from the sky.  As days turn to nights, and weeks go by,  You still suffer, but get used […]

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POEM: Bedtime Routine

1 2 3 4 5 six 7  Door closed, window closed, fan on. Check wardrobes to make sure nobody is inside. Close wardrobe doors. Check wardrobe doors are closed. Check again. Double check. Are you even trying? Check again.   1 2 3 4 5 six 7   Turn desk chair so it isn’t facing you. Check […]

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POEM: Pas de Deux

Brittle leaves crack with the promise of lifein the paw of a Beast I’ve tracked for some time.We have long since mastered the dance of the hunt,I was sure of the kill like I was sure of the cut. I had met this Beast just once beforewhen I thought I’d lost the path of its […]

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POEM: Cosmonaut

We are thrust into the Earth’s atmosphere.  As trail blazers,  In hopes of finding success and glory,  Of finding Achilles or Heracles.  Up there,  We find Icarus.  Skin melting,  Wax dripping from bones protruding from his spine.  Icarus smiles with skin welts that tear,  And oozes,  Dribbling golden blood down his cheeks.  There is skin […]

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Superman: A Review  

When I saw Batman Vs Superman in 2016, I swore off DC. I felt like the characters that were so ingrained into popular culture had actually turned out to be these evil, sinister shadows of what they were meant to be. Now, nine years later, and seven months into the trenches of a DC obsession […]

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Lit Corner: Religious Fanfictions (Dante’s Divine Comedy and John Milton’s Paradise Lost) 

Fanfiction is an integral part of any fandom, including the God fandom. For centuries, people have been writing literature and poetry inspired by their favourite book, the Bible, but do they count as fanfiction? In its simplest definition, fanfictions are stories created by fans about existing media. Typically, fanfiction authors use the same plot, lore, […]

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