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  • After I left, but before I became the Sun

    She would often think about murder. She would wonder how it must feel, to want to kill somebody. She wondered how someone reached the point where they are murdering their ...

    6 min read
  • Der Sturm

    The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day. These days filled Matthaus' mind with thoughts of his childhood home in Rostock, ...

    4 min read
  • The Pilgrimage

    It was your favourite time of day when I missed you most, just before the sunset, when everything is golden. It really is so beautiful, so alive with light and ...

    2 min read
  • Small Ponds

    Peter had never liked green beans, nor did he particularly like Sundays, which had always made Sunday roasts somewhat difficult. Sundays smelled like bread and were dreadfully dull; in fact ...

    4 min read
  • Railway

    This is a story about silence. But also a story about music and loneliness. It’s a story about serving coffee to strangers, and driving fast with the windows down. There ...

    3 min read
  • The Lighthouse

    The lighthouse was made redundant in 1999. The lights were not removed, but made powerless by officials with clipboards. Its position now on the cliff was sentimental; it was a ...

    7 min read
  • Birdcage

    Short free-form poem.

    2 min read
  • The letter that never came.

    One big soppy metaphor.

    1 min read
  • Sky gazing

    A poem about Noah, on a cloud

    1 min read
  • Glass

    A short poem that needs your love.

    1 min read
  • Real Life

    Inspired by 'this is water'

    1 min read


Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.
— Louisa May Alcott