Tea and Cake

When my knees scrape rock bottom

Death lifts up her manhole cover

and invites me in for a warm brew

She tells me my body can handle it.

My minds just in a vat of

emotion, a puddle of badly mixed paint.

Void of logic because
the screams drowned it out.
She gives m...

Muted

They sat on a bench that was spotted with bird shit. They didn’t mind. Her legs were crossed at the ankles and his were spread apart at forty-five degrees, so that in reality their share of the bench was a sixty-forty affair. She didn’t mind. He ate his sandwich,...

Originally from Dagenham, Charlie-Anne Butterworth is studying Creative Writing at Roehampton University. Now in her third and final year, Charlie won a place in 'The Unseen' anthology (Fincham Press, Dec 2017) and won 'The Editor's Choice' Award. 

HJ: Tell me a little...

 Tova Näslund comes from the outskirts of Luleå in Norrbotten county, Sweden, and graduated from Roehampton with a BA in Creative Writing. During Tova's degree, she published a role-playing game scenario with Pelgrane Press in an anthology titled "Seven Wonders", and a...

Bronia Waldron has just been published for the first time in The Unseen anthology by The University of Roehampton's Fincham Press. Her beautiful prose poem 'My Village' won a highly sought-after place in creative-writing competition, an event known for producing outsta...