My Mental Health | World Mental Health Day

Today is Mental Health Day; a day to spread awareness about mental health and inform people about the issues that 1 in 4 people in the UK can experience each year. I’m raising my hand to say that I am one of those people and I’m currently dealing with anxiety and depression. I’m not going […]

Inappropriately touched by a pigeon

I wake up to a gentle tone, growing in volume and a mild chill to the air. My alarm is telling me to wake up, it’s time to get ready for work. Grumbling, I slither out from under the covers, one limb at a time, trying to cling on to the warmth of the bedsheets […]

For now, I am

A jigsaw, tipped out on the floor, pieces scattered everywhere. A pile of leaves, strewn about by an errant wind. A watercolour painting, left out in the rain. A calm river, disturbed by a landslide. A well-worn book, knocked off a park bench and forgotten, out of sight. A bracelet snagged on a hook, beads […]

Writing Prompt | The Wish

“Once every 24 hours, you must, without fail, make a wish, and toss a coin fairly. If you guess the toss correctly, your wish is granted. If you guess incorrectly, the results of the wish are given to the person on Earth you least want to have it.” It’s lunch and I’m throwing imaginary daggers […]

Writing Prompt | 4:00am

I thought to myself, I don’t feel any different. Is it supposed to hurt? Is the breath supposed to catch in my throat? Am I supposed to just not be anymore? I opened my eyes and looked at the vista in front of me. I was lucky that my Time happened to coincide with the dawn, […]

The “A” word

The world was spinning, heat was radiating across her chest and the pit of dread in her stomach was growing each second. She placed one hand on the dresser to steady herself as she stumbled, and held her head with the other, willing the throbbing pain to stop, stop, stop. Tears fell from her freshly […]

An open letter to my family and friends

Hi, We haven’t spoken in a while. If we had, I could just ask you how your week has been, but it’s been so many weeks that that question is void. But how are you doing? What’s your job now? Do you have a partner? What’s their name? You don’t,? Are you looking or are […]

A river and a rock

You’re wading through a river, against the flow. Left, right, left, right. One step in front of the other, slowly gaining ground, but feeling the pressure against you each for each foot of progress. You can see the path ahead through the clear, frigid water, and the pitfalls ahead are a mixture of obvious and […]

Whining, published

She’d booked the time off months ago – attempting to take advantage of the bank holidays – and, rather naively, she’d not expected anything to go wrong and therefore didn’t take the possibility of change into account, despite her pessimistic nature. It was the Friday of her week off and she had done nothing of […]

Writing Prompt | The Earth is destroyed

The Earth is destroyed. Humanity has been reduced to a race of vagabonds, drifting from planet to planet in ‘caravans’ of ships, tolerated, but never welcome. You don’t mind much though; you always liked travelling. Dear Diary, ‘Ol’ Blue’. That’s what Mops and Pops called it in our bedtime stories. The Elders called it ‘Earth […]