Types of people on Valentine’s Day
by Ben Helme and Sadia Sheeraz The person who only ever soft launches their BF We all have that one…
Happiest Fool
By Didier Muller. Illustration by Salvatore Pirito. You could trick me, and I’d be grateful Tell me everything I want…
Short-changed
By Didier Muller; Illustration by Salvatore Pirito I’m selling my soul for a flat belly It’s seen some wear So,…
A Guide on How to Love
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is a historical novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows that…
Consciousness
Poem by Tapiwa Nyirenda, republished from the upcoming issue of ‘Lacuna’. the weight of it all poured out of my…
Love Letter (1953): Masculinity, survival, and the nation-state
Set in 1950 post-war Japan under the American Occupation – Reikichi, our quiet, melancholy protagonist, wanders around roads and railway…
Comment: This Lent, I’m giving up loving Boris Johnson
This piece is written under a pseudonym. Post-election Boris Johnson is a very different Prime Minister from his pre-election self.…
Brown girl meets brown boy, falls in love
A boy tells me that his mother doesn’t want to see him marry a brown woman. He is a brown…
What is your beloved more than another beloved
(This work also appears in Clare Market Review: Maximalism) The world is suddenly technicolour when for so long it’s been…
Modern Love – touching love stories that lack a realist bite ★★★★
Modern Love, the popular New York Times column has been making readers laugh, cry, and cringe for fifteen years as…
