Awaken
A Horror Flash Fiction story based on nostalgia for the 2000s and PS2 Games.
The Braided Cage
A poem exploring teenage angst in the early 2000s, underscored by a fear of what the future holds.
I Don’t Want to See Another ‘As Seen on TikTok’ Tag Ever Again
TikTok’s influence on literature and the marketing of books
We Had to Remove This Post: Desensitisation in the Digital Age
We Had to Remove This Post serves as a reflection of Gen Z and forces the reader to consider how social media can desensitise us and ask: just how much is too much?
A Deep Dive into AI Poetry
We know that AI can write a competent essay or podcast script, but what about something complex, emotional, and inherently human—what about poetry?
Grief as Leftover Love in Onyi Nwabineli’s ‘Someday Maybe’
A review of Onyi Nwabineli’s ‘Someday Maybe’ and how grief is perhaps one of the most crushing yet profoundly moving expressions of love.
Shakespeare’s Most Romantic Play (Is Not Romeo and Juliet)
The romances in Shakespeare's comedies are often overlooked in favour of the tragedies, despite Twelfth Night being the perfect example of a romantic comedy.
Normal People Was More Than the Book on My Hospital Bedside Table
A personal essay on disability, love, radical acceptance and Sally Rooney’s Normal People.
Love through letters: a look into the most iconic symbol of love
Whether in its traditional form or its contemporary iterations—love letters are a highly romantic and sensual expression of love.
The Magic of Be Not Afraid of Love
We are enticed, perhaps enchanted, and ready for all that we will be feeling alongside Mimi Zhu.
CLOSE READ: Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
Exploring Human Nature on the Brink of Extinction in Octavia E. Butler’s 1987 “Dawn”
Top Reads of the 2020s (Thus far)
An Analysis of Rebecca from Rebecca: Sexy, Promiscuous, and Decidedly Evil
The enduring Legacy of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca
Herland: The first gender plague novel?
Examining the troubling implications of this subgenre of speculative dystopian fiction in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s novel, Herland.