SORRELMARSH | short stories

In Sorrelmarsh, everything is different...

NIKKI & JOE, CASUALLY | ✓

Nicolás Velez is done with casual sex. Listen, yes, he might've slept with everyone in his flat within the first week of living in halls and had a respectable run on Grindr, but what eighteen-year-old wouldn't? He's almost twenty-four now, though, and sleeping with people who can't pronounce his name is, as his best...

blood oranges cannibalized

☆ to be loved is to be eaten

I JUST WANT YOU TO LIKE ME | ✓

Miles Hoàng's life is perfect. He has the perfect best-friend-slash-boyfriend-slash-bane-of-his-existence, Ziri Meziani. They live in a perfect (if a little cramped) apartment above a Nepalese restaurant they get food from at a discount whenever they're both too lazy to cook. He has a perfect (meaning decent) job with...

Trials of a Teenage Hedge-Witch

Maya is caught between a rock and a hard place. Her family of witches are loud, eccentric and downright embarrassing and her classmates in her small village school all view her as a freak. With so much external pressure, how is a girl supposed to figure out who she really is and whether she can handle a future as a...

Keep A Vacancy For Me

It's the year 2000, and Ezekiel and Jed are free. In Skasnorth, where the sun rises when Jed does and sets when Ezekiel and Jed (EzekielandJed) fall back into the sheets, life is established. Smoking in bars, body shots in the backs of vans, Ezekiel and Jed are the best of friends. Merely two best friends who find t...

SLOW BOAT TO CHINA→ORIGINAL

LOVE IS AN AGILE FISH AND THOSE SEEKING IT are the riders of a slow boat sailing on a mellow river. It's a rare thing to find love, a rarer one to catch it, and the rarest to keep it. But when two women stumble upon a mutual discovery of this precious gem, they're stuck with whether to unearth it or not. OR... Two old...

COMPROMESSO STORICO→Original

THERE IS NOTHING MORE JOURNALISTICALLY PROFITABLE THAN NOSTALGIA. No article written with any amount of nuance compares to a good story milking the past for all of its glories and none of its mishappenings. And when a tired journalist is forced upon another fable of past revival, what she finds is no worse than what s...

BEFORE I DIE, I PRAY TO BE BORN | ✓

The real world skins you alive. It's a hazard of growing up in rural Suffolk... or possibly, it's a hazard of growing up. Either way, the Dorian Andrade and Isaiah Matalon who run into each other at a party in Oxford have become equally disenchanted imitations of the boys who used to spend summers eating stolen apples...

I WAS JUST TRYING TO BE FUNNY | ✓

A skeleton is all that keeps Ziri Meziani from becoming a ghost. Born to a prosaic town in East Sussex, Ziri is more than used to the company of his thoughts and daydreams, a habit nobody took issue with until 2006. Crediting it to him merely being reserved, they'd shrug and leave him to wander the uncharted terrain o...

have a biscuit potter; rant book

;in which i don't have the emotional range of a teaspoon and have to leave my thoughts somewhere.

loud poetry from a quiet girl

poetry by a person that's afraid of people. 12/23/15- #1 in poetry