Fiction

Finders Keepers

Finders Keepers It was just lying there, underneath the table, Naomi had spotted it while clearing up, It was 1.30am and she had had a long hard shift. An iPhone 5, brand new, she couldn’t believe her luck. On her meagre wages there was no way she could afford one of these but now here […]

Fiction Satire

A Statement From the BBC

A Statement from the BBC The BBC unequivocally apologises for any  insult, hurt, stress, trauma,abuse,affrontery,derision,discourtesy,disrespect,ignominy,impertinence,impudence,incivility, insolence, offense, outrage, rudeness, shame or slander that any of our viewers may have felt or felt subject to, think they felt, either real or not or felt they felt in any way conscious or subconscious either mentally spiritually or […]

Poetry

Remembrance

Remembrance It is a small act Just once a year A pause Slight hush In the hubbub of life. One hundred and twenty seconds Of silent reflection Such a small thing In exchange For such a sacrifice Just silence For the lives lost And the loves lost And the limbs lost It seems a nothing […]

Racism Ungagged Writing

Racism in the UK

“We’ve had enough of your kind, take that off your head or join Isis”. These were the words spat at 20-year-old Hannah Moustafa by an angry elderly gentleman earlier this month. His “reasons”? She was wearing a hijab. Nothing more. In may of this year, Daniel Way, 37, was found guilty of racially aggravated assault […]