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Volume One | Issue One

Nerves 

By Donnacha Óg 

Looking For Purpose, Finding Loinnir

By Emma Tirlot

Beast

Elinor Bonifant

Fiction

Dishes Blue

By Nomi Smith

‘Never trust a woman when she cries,’ his mother had told him...

Looking Back

By Mimmi Riikonen

The third time their eyes meet, Finn dares to suspect she might be looking at him...

The Chaste Ethnographer 

By Róisín Lawrence Connelly

When I was 4 years old, a strange man came to live in my house. I hadn’t thought of it since, but I was visiting my sister just the other day, and she brought it up. 

The Mismatched Man

By Clare Bohane

There’s a man standing at the front of our estate and he is wearing the wrong clothes. His face and his clothes don’t match. 

The Schwammerl Spot 

By Leo Ortelt

‘I’ll return with the Schwammerl,’ said the young witch to the old witch as she shouldered her travel bag.

‘Then you can show me how to cook the Schwammerl stew you always make when I’m sick.’

Summer in the City

By Lucy Olsman

Boaz saw it first – the gleam of metal that slashed through a ray of sunshine...

Nerves

By Donnacha Óg

The first thing out of Seán Peiste’s mouth is wrong.

‘I’ll just have a Tequilla sunset, please.’ 

Melded

By Danielle Ray Sgambati

Munster, a fantastic melting cheese and a staple of endless snacking nights, Cal believed, was completely underutilized and underappreciated. He placed the mayo, butter, and blocks of cheese on the counter...

Non-Fiction

Still, I Turn to the Screen

By Sierra Violet

The soul in me is withering. I’ll call it a soul – whatever the thing is that is woven through this body, whatever the substance of the self may be... 

Looking For A Purpose, Finding Loinnir

By Emma Tirlot

When you start questioning the choices you made in life...

Sophie's Things

By Emma Righter

One of her things was a wintergreen Altoids tin that held unspectacular shells, dead flowers and sea glass that she just liked to have... 

Poetry

World as Crossword

By Rain Clarke-Nash

Beast

By Elinor Bonifant

I meet Beast on an app. This is the way most things happen. 

I am 24 

My dad is dead

In theory, it should be difficult to care about dating...  

The Landscape of Childhood has Changed.

By Caoimhe Cooney

Murky green fields hugging the main road meant five minutes til home.

The mammoth of an oak in the centre...

Café Terrace at Night

By Jane Twomey

What memories I have

of Café Terrace at Night,

with its violet sky and 

its warm aureate light...

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