Writing by Vivienne Gorgoova, artwork by Berenika Murray My mum would always say we were being punished. Every minor inconvenience our...

Writing by Caitlin Tambini, artwork by Lou Vachez. Rosie smoked Vogues. Nostalgic from a Parisian holiday aged 16, she bought a packet...

Writing by Erin Cullinan, artwork by Alana Kenneth. The remorse after imagining a stranger naked. The pit in your stomach after telling a...

Writing by Lizzie Armitage, artwork by Seth Statham. Black eyes glint at me from the jewellery box, set in gilded emblems of blasphemy...

Writing by Michael Wu, illustration by Lucienne Saisselin. 1 Look at Bill. Bill was not really his name; he’s my cousin. Bill got drunk...

Writing by Jessie Irvin Rose. Artwork by Yury Aleksanyan. 0. She Two pigeons outside my window plunge their beaks into each other’s...

Writing by Scarlett Smyth. Artwork by Jocelyn Arnold. Marguerite and I both cried cutting the chestnut trees. I hid behind a middling...

Writing by Kuba Olszak. Artwork by James Wake. Perhaps I can only love in a Cartesian way. I can either love the soul and the soul that...

Writing by Heidi Hafner. Artwork by Seth Statham. I like that they asked me about the body, Not my body. Because it’s not mine, It never...

Writing by Jessie Irvin Rose. Illustration Berenika Murray. She lies in the heat and watches him work, watches him sway the net through...

Writing Isabela Caramico. Artwork by Rosa Rucola (soon to be found via @rucolasexternalbrain) A quick trip to the grocery shop. All I...

Writing by Emily Tennant. Artwork by Yury Aleksanyan. Is catharsis necessarily a loud act? An uncontrollable, unexpected moment of...

Writing by Lola Weisselberg. Artwork by Leonie Hubert. She’s sitting by the door again. She’s always touching something, I’ve noticed;...

Writing Heather Sweeney. Artwork by Berenika Murray. When I pull it from the back of my throat It leaves a metallic savoury note Through...

Writing by anonymous. Artwork by Cilla Sullivan. Christian worship is steeped in catharsis, acted out in rituals of purification and...

Writing by Sam Stevens. Artwork by Kate Granholm. I don’t eat meat. This has not always been easy for my peers to swallow. On school...

Writing by Michael Wu. Artwork by Yury Aleksanyan and Kate Granholm. The Sphinx White, death does finding with sand inks a tread...

Writing by Sue O'Hara. Artwork by Kate Granholm (@katesartthings on instagram) I never had an obsession with Disney princesses as a...

Writing by Molly Reed. Artwork by Kate Granholm (@katesartthings on Instagram) It was springtime When I gave birth to the darkness....

Writing by Michael Wu. Artwork by Yury Aleksanyan. Game is candles’ ivory floor And perturbed pains in my sick bed war For there little...