The Hidden Spirit of the Forest

The Hidden Spirit of the Forest

The Hidden Spirit Of The Forest Amelia Herridge Ishak The silence brought on the night. That fresh, crispy stillness that comes as the last of the  day’s light slips away beyond the horizon. Time was frozen, the world taking a collective  breath, before darkness...
Huge Ships

Huge Ships

Huge Ships Peter Hankins Again he had the powerful sense of being in the presence of death. Not feeling haunted or terrified: something calmer, as if he were walking in a graveyard. He knew it was no good lying in the dark waiting for his mind to move on (he’d tried...
Blue in Green

Blue in Green

Blue In Green E J Droga It was a sort of longing:a piercing, soulful arc rising from a warm melody, dancing through the air like a ballerina upon  the stage, twirling and spinning, flowing through your imagination. Calling from the  background, those plaintive notes...
Aperitivo

Aperitivo

Aperitivo Madeleine Holmes Chapter One: Aperitivo I look down at the straw hat that floats idly on the sparkling surface, its peach ribbon trailing in the turquoise Caribbean Sea. Somewhere beneath the sea is my mother. And for what seems like an eternity, she’s no...
Turnings

Turnings

Turnings Cope Cumpston The poster was taped on a wall in the science building hallway. A schooner leaned tall into whitecaps, sails swollen with wind against an immense blue sky. The banner above, Openings: oceanographic apprentices for the Research Vessel Westward....