Dispatches from the Field

‘EMPRESS’ BY JACKY HUTSON ‘To other women the choice of clothes was a form of ingenious exhibition, a shameless seduction. To me, dresses were like a breastplate that I put on to set off to war against this life.’ SHAN SA

‘NOT READY’ BY MICHAEL HOWARD ‘Be to her, Persephone, All the things I might not be: Take her head upon your knee. She that was so proud and wild, Flippant, arrogant and free, She that had no need of me, Is a little lonely child Lost in Hell,—Persephone, Take her head upon your knee: Say […]

‘MONSIEUR LE RENARD’ BY MICHAELA HOLLYFIELD ‘In the hole lived Mr. Fox and Mrs. Fox and their four small Foxes.’ ‘I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I’m the greatest. And if they aren’t completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don’t feel good about myself.’ ROAHL […]

‘CLIMBERS SERIES NO.5’ BY EMILY HILLIER ‘The moun­tain seems no more a soul­less thing, But rather as a shape of ancient fear, In dark­ness and the winds of Chaos born Amid the lord­less heav­ens’ thun­der­ing– A Pres­ence crouched, enor­mous and aus­tere, Before whose feet the mighty waters mourn.’ GEORGE STERLING