Fabio Sassi
Frankie
Flux
Fabio Sassi makes photos and acrylics that take the everyday and ordinary and frame it in a different way. He lives in Bologna, Italy and his work can be viewed online.
Two Photos
Category: Issue 10
On Reflection
Sherry Morris
Originally from Missouri, Sherry Morris writes prize-winning fiction from a farm in the Scottish Highlands where she pets cows, watches clouds and dabbles in photography. She reads for the wonderfully wacky Taco Bell Quarterly and her first published story was about her Peace Corps experience in Ukraine. See more on her website and follow her on Twitter (@Uksherka).
Bloodset
Praveena Pulendran
Praveena Pulendran is a 21-year-old creative from London. She enjoys photography, flowers, and the colour pink! Her passion for mixed media often merges with her poetry, creating mini art pieces tucked away in scrappy notebooks.
She’ll be a Writer
Ellis Jamieson
Two tiny tottering feet imagine they can fly with the gulls. Two blue eyes see mermaids’ worlds inside the rockpools. Her hand-me-down, red coat – a viking sail. Driftwood swords. Sandcastle kingdoms. She and the sea speak a secret language.
Mum says,
“She’ll be a writer when she grows up.”
Ellis Jamieson is a queer, non-binary writer, based in the north of Scotland. They write prose as well as plays, and enjoy working next to their fire while the winds howl outside. Their work has previously been published in Shoreline of Infinity and on Yorick Radio Productions.
October 17, 2021
Emily Pinkerton
the sky is deep charcoal, threatening rain
for the first time in a year
filled with fire and dust. I watch the reel
of a VHS tape unspool in the wind,
snaking across the width of 40th street,
billowing in shining black arcs
as my car creeps toward the traffic light.
Emily Pinkerton (she/they) holds an MFA from San Francisco State University. Her writing has previously appeared in the chapbooks Natural Disasters (2016), Bloom (2018) and Adaptations (2018), and the journals ZYZZYVA, Juked, BlazeVOX, and Berkeley Poetry Review. She is a 2023 Fellow at USF Verftet in Bergen, Norway. See more online or on Twitter (@neongolden).
All the time
Alice Willington
All the time on the train today
I have imagined you feeding me ice-cream,
chocolate and distinct, from an elegant spoon.
Perhaps we have arrived at the Grand Café –
there must be a table in the mirror’s eternity.
The train has stalled at Arisaig – should I wait?
Alice Willington won second prize in the 2009 Ledbury Poetry Competition. Her poems have appeared in Magma, Under the Radar and other magazines. Her pamphlet Long After Lights Out (Eyewear) was published in November 2015.
Briefly Write 