Hearing Your Call To Write
A collection of short stories edited by Margret Helgadottir, Asian Monsters finally gives monsters the diversity and representation they deserve. In a seemingly endless quest for more racial and cultural identities in literature, this collection gives us a hauntingly beautiful assortment of supernatural voices.
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Propaganda
Propaganda shouts
Now lies and falsehood protrude
Quietly truth wins
Empathy rains colour like a lava lamp.
I watch it float along a hidden tide,
pastels passing through me
in fleeting moments
yellow, purple and pink
transcending through my skin
She knew it was coming. It had been coming for a while. All those late nights at work, the way he didn’t seem to talk to her any more. They drifted around each other like leaves in the wind, both taking their separate courses, living their separate lives.
[Read more…] about Circling the DrainWhen you know you have women around you
Mothers, Aunties, Grandmas, Sisters, Friends
who willingly step into your place.
Railhead is a futuristic, science-fiction epic by award-winning novelist Phillip Reeve, who has already created a growing readership of young people and adults prepared to join him in his world of space, aliens and machines.
