A/N: I wrote this as a weird pseudo-one-shot about Fallout: New Vegas. Basically, in the game, there’s a companion the player can choose to travel with named Boone. His wife, Carla, was sold to the game’s ‘villains’ by a citizen of the town, Novac, they lived in. After travelling to the villains’ camp, Boone finds and mercy kills Carla before she can be put to … Continue reading FICTION: The Last Thing She Never Saw
A/N: This is a piece from my ‘Writing the Self’ portfolio. My lecturer asked us to write a story from our lives, and rewrite it in a traditional fairytale format. I thought long and hard about the parts of my life that warrant a fairytale retelling, and my wedding was the most obvious choice. So, here you go. As is usually the case when Brits … Continue reading Fairytale Wedding
A/N: I submitted this piece to a literary journal but that was over a year ago now. I think it’s safe to say it’s never going to be published, and I can probably post it here instead. It’s about the best and worst parts of being bisexual before you realise you’re bisexual. Enjoy 🙂 How do I explain to you Aditi? Everybody wanted Aditi. I … Continue reading In Stone and Sand
After the famed yet failed super-glued-pringles-can attempt of 2017, you have, with the help of your dad who yearns for his two-decade-since-deceased “glory days” in a French field wherein he tried a space cake for the first and last time, successfully snuck your own cakes of the cosmos into a family-friendly, indie-rock festival. Well done you. Yesterday, your step-mother caught you smoking a cigarette and … Continue reading SX1000
1 If Diana was still here, I can bet she’d be Rowling’s foil, and much to the chagrin of her relations, would praise Harry’s not wanting to be royal. I bet that she’d love Megan, they’d sit in her gardens at Kensington, so Diana could speak freely of luscious black hair and dine with her daughter on salmon. I always wanted a girl, she’d … Continue reading POETRY: Sometimes I Unearth Dead Blondes and Carve them into Idols
AN: This is a piece I wrote for an assignment – go somewhere you’ve never been before. The sun shines through shredded sky, night disappearing. From the decaying footpath, behind there are motors, in front there is splendour, to the left there are grandparents, to the right there are daffodils. The colossus reaches up into the sky and across for two miles, its younger sibling … Continue reading Somewhere You’ve Never Been BeforeÂ
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