Photograph by Laura Veres Calcutta To Vanessa Loureiro First we had nothing. We started to bury the stillborn adults, those beyond...

Author's note Baba Yaga is a witch from Slavic folktale. Sometimes seen as dangerous and violent, she is also a healer and a wise woman,...

Moments from Thumbelina's Other Life Author's Note Tiny is another name for Thumbelina, the protagonist of Hans Christian Andersen's...

Striae* Ask the artist to make the true belly of the mother his muse to colour the life lines that ripple like prayer flags to draw the...

The Telegraph Line There was horror I carry a half-weight as my portion and sleep when I can For you brother tell me tell me of...

Photograph by Harriet Griffey It will all be discarded in the end It will all be discarded in the end: the sea and strand; the stark...

Photograph by Kitchou Kristina Mighty I dreaded us losing our Gruffalo dad, an army of hands and feet the strict skin of him towering, so...

The Song of the Instrument Case I take the hard knocks, the gaze of strangers. It's me who feels the weather. Heavy and awkward, a thing...

what a storm did in that moment before the rain came on when the light fell to shimmering and it was too dark to read at the table ...

Stone It's impossible to be alive and to fake stillness as if a stone had taken possession of your mind. It's impossible to drain black...

Wake it is simpler to haul myself into grief than out of it. what is to excavate when others remain underground? what is to extricate...

O Chorizo Chop it this way: the horseshoe clean down the middle, half in the fridge for later. Now peer into its universe, gemmed and...

Wonder Woman, Private Eye "Beautiful as Aphrodite, wise as Athena, strong as Hercules, swift as...", etc. ...OK, it's Hermes, in case...

Heliotrope I read somewhere that the light-emitting child is a known phenomenon. Her luminous face astonishes like birdsong in a desert,...

Honeysuckle 1. And one day I couldn't bear it – the way its thin tendrils trailed through the trellis, twisting and tangling, knotting...

The Words Impossible to relax as the inside of my skull was stuffed with words and it would be necessary to release them somehow. There...

Foreign Film We travel between horizons you and I in linear e-motion one word after the other one space to the next Upper and lower...

Painting by Rusudan Free Range He promised no part of my body would go to waste. I would be eaten from nose to tail. "Yes or no?" "Yes."...

At the Gran Hotel Bahia del Duque As I trespassed in the leisured luxury only the rich enjoy, she came to visit. I knew she was an...

Supernatural Latinos… are big moviegoers – 22 percent of audiences on any given weekend. But when it comes to horror, that proportion...

Eating in Orbit breakfasting in a solar marble haze, tearing open silver sacks of freeze-dried dinners. we could have tasted every fruit...

Ode The streets are empty but a crowd has gathered in the air. Trombones and cellos on the balconies, a song gradually taking hold. The...

Josephine Balmer writes: "After hearing his nephew sing one of Sappho's lyric songs, the Athenian lawgiver Solon ordered the boy to teach...

Close I was always late that summer. Reckoning it better to call in sick I drifted towards the lake around two. Grander, far, far...