CONCEALED – VANWY MACDONALD ARIF
Fatima wished she didn’t know the statue was there. Peeping Tom’s sallow, grimacing face twisted perversely. An untidy black beard could not hide how strangely […]
GROWING PATCH – STEPHEN KINGSNORTH
For years it was a briar patch, / the spittoon for my tar babies / where dog-ends crouched and mucked about, / a wasteland, harsh for lions’ teeth […]
ALIEN BABY – LOU SIDAY
It has been three weeks and my belly has swollen almost double in size. Sometimes in the dark I can see it glowing. I will try to sleep but […]
TEST-TUBE DAFFODILS – MARIE STUDER
In the dream there were no more daffodils / in gardens, allotments or fields / instead, a floating glass sarcophagus / of earth’s near extinct blooms […]
DREAMS OF A RED PLANET – CALVIN JORDAN
Alex gripped the arms of her seat. All around her, the ship creaked and rattled, groaning under the stress of re-entry. The sound of the engines roaring in her ears, she could feel the bile in her stomach rising. They […]
REMEMBERING SNOW – JEFF PHELPS
Three o’clock on New Year’s Day / and already the clamp of white sky / tightens towards darkness. / Steam is scrawled by the last […]
STRIPS OF COLOUR – MICHAEL DOHERTY
HCE received a lot of high-quality submissions for The Green Issue – sadly, too many to fit inside the magazine! So we offered some writers and artists who’d sent in work the chance to be published here on the website. […]
EDU-CASH-ION – AMY TURNBULL
Amy Turnbull has been working with found imagery drawn from the worlds of retro soft-pornography and the kitsch glamour of advertising. Working in the tradition of critical photomontage […]
MATCHA MAKER – ROB GOALBY
Splattered with steamed milk and reeking of coffee is just my natural state. The same drinks, hour after hour, the same grinding noise, beans turning to powder, the same gurgle, espresso in a cup. And now flowers. What kind of boy […]
INFINITE FREQUENCY – STEVE CAVIN
The frequency of green light, / Is six hundred teracycles per second. / The frequency of FM radio, / Is ninety megacycles per second. / The frequency of […]