Sally Rooney’s 2018 novel Normal People is a heartbreaking journey featuring intimacy, pain, and the social dynamics of human connections.

Enit'ayanfe Ayosojumi Akinsanya on writing, loneliness, creating empathy through words, and his debut novel

In which CX analyses familial relations and their breaking down by way of a good (and totally aware that this is happening) friend.

Erik Dargitz is a Seattle-based advertising creative director and author. His debut novel, The Odyssey of Fletcher is out on the 20th of Oct

A short story about a protagonist getting chatted up by a barfly - a look at how different vices can affect hunger or thirst.

This piece is about the discomfort of being an object of desire. 'CRUSH' is a part of the pieces with the theme 'hunger.'

This piece takes inspiration from a past relationship, and the writer's hunger to fit into conservative British society as a POC.

All of life is a shifting stage and some of us are keen on never leaving the fulcrum of the script to others.

Do you ever ask yourself, 'How would I act if disaster played out in front of me?' In this flash, Jack answers that question.

The Apothecary explores a world where emotions are seen as visible burdens that should be removed altogether.

The Dinner Date by Sophia Carlisle is the author's response to the horrifying nature of dating.

Thuzar’s Door is a magical realism flash about love as motherhood and grief, then motherhood and grief as sacrifices.

Plagued by grief, a mother goes searching for answers to her pain. But life doesn't always have a reason. And God isn't always the answer.

Ruth is about to learn the truth about magic and boys. A story by Samantha Dooey-Miles

You said you think of me in the spring. Daisy chains, hands interlinking, the remnants of winter still chafing at your cheeks: spring.

Once upon a time there was an enormous oak tree, home to a family of squirrels and its acorns. Now, there are no more acorns.

Wherever there are ghosts, there are sure to be their aethereal offspring eager to find their way to birth.

The good news: Meghan finally gets to see what life is like in her intriguing neighbor's home. The bad news: Meghan is, well, dead.

I keep telling myself to become equally inflexible, to cease appearing so perpetually idle. On that day I was curious enough to agree.

You remember the time a distant relative let slip that you were never meant to be alive: a mistake.