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Jan 18
I gained sentience to Toxic by Britney Spears
Amy Condren recalls her awakening. I will never forget the first time I heard ‘Toxic’ by Britney Spears. Too young to enrol in classes, I...
Jan 18
Something More
“I didn’t think you would come.” Samira’s heart trips over itself at the familiar voice and she whirls around. Theo is much taller now...
Jan 18
Boop on the Nose
“Breaking news: planet Earth stopped rotating for approximately fifteen minutes this morning. T before the planet resumed rotation....
Jan 18
Safe & Sound
I have this plush cat I got when I was one, Still sitting on my bed, Guard duty never done. A shelf of painted figurines Of Voronetz and...
Jan 18
To Remember Is to Be Haunted
Jordan Maree embraces all their memories, despite the haunted house that restlessly taunts their mind. When our memories are vessels for...
Jan 18
The Denim Skirt
Hear Tasmin Slender’s ode to the humble denim skirt as she relives her own ‘Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants’ moment. Going to uni...
Jan 18
Digitising my high school diaries
Casper Cunneen reflects on rereading and rewriting high school poems, and takes readers on a journey through their teenage years. I’m a...
Jan 18
Trap (2024): A ‘Crispy’ New Horror Favourite and the Ultimate Girl-Dad Movie
Deputy Editor Zaynab Khuder gives us a review on why Trap is not just another strong, experimental offering from M. Night Shyamalan but...
Jan 18
baby dracula
baby dracula, your mother’s womb is hollow. you spawn in utero out of godly lust — mother fashions herself saint mary. only an evil god...
Jan 18
there is a werewolf who stalks the woods
he is no more man than he is wolf when he is hungry he feeds digs his fangs and bares his teeth it’s all the same two sides — sedis...
Nov 22, 2024
Pop Culture Rewind: The Addams Family (1991)
Chantelle Mackintosh rewinds back to the freaky and Gothic, yet endlessly charming nature of The Addams Family, especially Morticia and...
Nov 22, 2024
[NIC’S FLIX] MaXXXine is a Disappointing Conclusion to a Once-Promising Trilogy
Repeat Offenders Section Editor, Nic Chang, reviews MaXXXine, the conclusion to Ti West’s horny and unhinged retro horror X trilogy,...
Nov 22, 2024
“Face Pressed Up Against Your Longing”: Love, Loss and Revenge, A Recap of Interview With The Vampire Season Two
Our Deputy Editor, Zaynab Khuder, recaps AMC’s Interview With The Vampire as not only a satisfying adaptation of Anne Rice’s Vampire...
Nov 22, 2024
The Sexual Tension Between My Thoughts and I
Daniela De Vera reveals a glimpse into the frustrated psyche: wanting everything from life and the people in it but remaining in...
Nov 22, 2024
THE HYSTERICAL HYSTERECTOMY CLUB
Martha Jetis parades the pains of modern women in this comedic satire laced with mythological references and nauseating stats Author’s...
Nov 22, 2024
How to Eat a Piece of Fruit: A Step By Step Guide
Select your fruit of choice. Be conscious of the fact that each variety of fruit will yield an entirely different eating experience. A...
Nov 22, 2024
How Do Mermaids Have Babies? (And other questions your children are bound to ask someday)
Nirvana Prasad answers… or evades your burning questions in this comedic study of mythological reproduction “You see, when a mummy...
Nov 22, 2024
Dating Advice For Lonely Men (A Confession)
Women have been given unsolicited dating advice for far too long. In this article, Sarah Sol turns the tables. Dear Lonely Man, Yes...
Nov 22, 2024
Circus Freaks
Kayleigh Greig highlights the top names in contortion and calisthenics to inspire your inner acrobat As a teenager, I once tried out...
Nov 22, 2024
Chemistry Class: Tampon Edition
Tanisha Shah delves into the mind-itching world of chemistry and the recent study citing the presence of metals in tampons Who hasn’t...
Nov 22, 2024
what do persimmons taste like
Of course persimmons aren’t trying to taste like apples or pears or a strange mix of the two, or like either of them. Being, tasting like...
Nov 22, 2024
Threads of Desire
We move as one, our bodies intertwine as we do a dance we’re all too familiar with. Your fingers wrap around my neck like a necklace,...
Nov 22, 2024
One Last Summer
I leap along the sand in my salty, damp swimming costume. The beach is almost deserted and stretches longer than time. I am eleven years...
Nov 22, 2024
Getting to the Bottom of It
They say when in Rome, do as the Romans do. But I’m not in Rome, I’m at level 4 of Maxforce Tower, and in this jungle of paperwork and...
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