I sit day in day out in this small space. It is all that I have known for a while now. For over half of my life I have been in this space and let me tell you that is hard. It was hard when I was younger but it is harder now. Now that I am older I sometimes think I will never get out.

I have been on the outside. I still remember what it was like. I started out my life being loved and longed to fe...

Wait and wait again, they were used to it. They waited and waited, always together, their hopes were great, they grew everyday, just like the anxiety. How long it had been, they had forgotten.

“When will it come, do you think, soon?” Her voice raised its velocity after every third word.

He couldn’t say, he didn’t know, “But I hope sooner than later, you know what happens if...

Trigger Warning: Infant Loss

Her eyes opened slowly, unfocused and groggy.

She couldn't remember where she was or how she’d gotten here. The room slowly came into focus as she climbed out of her tunnel of darkness.

A hazy, early morning light filtered in through the window: not her bedroom window.

She looked across her body to a small table elbowed over the foot of her bed. Atop the table was...

People used to look at me funny when I said that my Dad was my hero; like I had something on my face. I suppose in their eyes a farmer doesn’t fit the stereotype. He wasn’t a fireman or a policeman. He didn’t tell exciting stories of his daring. Strangers didn’t recognise him in the street. He was just a plain ordinary farmer but to me at the age of nine he was superman and I wanted to do what he...

“Oh... you look so beautiful, honey,” my mom gushed, swiping some blush on my cheeks.

I grinned. “Thanks, Mom.”

She sighed. Her hands clasped in front of her. “I can’t believe this is finally happening. My little girl is finally becoming queen.”

I smiled. “I know! I’ve been training for this my entire life.”

My mom caressed my cheek. “I’ll see you outside hm?”

I nodded and she left, her long ...

It was surreal. To be standing there with her after all these years about to say our vows.

She looked so, so happy. Our friends and family were there and her eyes were just full. It wasn’t often that she looked at me like this, as though she really looked up to me. Ready to go on our lived journey together.

As we were about to begin something seemed to distract the vicar. I looked to my right an...

The glaring lights were really starting to grate on her, nevermind the constant beeping from machines and the murmur that filtered in from the hallway. But despite these annoyances, despite having to wear the rough hospital gown with nothing but her underwear beneath, despite being endlessly prodded over the past two days, Arie was smiling.

Today was the day.

Today she would gain back a modicum...

Georgia sat in the darkened study with the door firmly closed. Her eyes were transfixed on the screen eminently the bright blue light. Her hands ran threw her cropped electric pink hair.

Beads of were forming on her forehead, she licked her lips across her drying mouth.

‘Come on’ she muttered under her breath,

Her sticky hands grabbed hold of the mouse as she moved it around her desk. H...

Just when I thought it was all going so well. That bastard, my so-called life-long friend, Freddy the Fence, has done me up like a kipper. I was all set for an old age of easy, fun-filled gin and tonic gargling and now I’m totally stuffed. When (and there will definitely be a when) I catch up with him, I will be settling his account for good.

We went to school together, Freddy and me. I was alwa...

I’d waited so long for this it almost didn’t seem real. i was about to get married. i was about to spend the rest of my life with the man i loved most. i was about to say “i do” to a lifetime of memories and laughter. to children, and pets, vacations and road trips. i couldn’t wait. i had my dress picked out and bridesmaids all lined up. the teenager in me was jittery with excitement. i had dreamt...