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Young couple enjoying a romantic walk beside a dumpster in a gritty urban alley

Sarah’s promise of forever

A dystopian reflection on sacrifice, memory, and surviving beyond death

A young refugee offering a modest gift to the girl who made him smile, representing hope carried quietly across borders

Where my father met my mother

How two teenagers from different worlds meet in a village market and challenge the boundaries around them

"A French Postillion," by Thomas Rowlandson, 1780

A story about choices

Crossing: strength and weakness

Statue of Hamlet in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, UK

Hamlet and the Beggar Queen

A dramatic meditation on theatre, power, homelessness, and the blurred identities of Shakespeare and Marlowe

Lucio confronted Justin to find missing Dina, which led him to their last trip to Miami on an emotional

Running out of breath

Take a moment to breathe and think about your next move

Full moon shining through bare tree branches at twilight in Chitrod, Gujarat, India

The shape of what remains

From spider eggs and tombstones to forests and flies, these poems explore loss in all its forms

A son voicing his frustrations while his father responds with composure, showing the power of reflection over reaction

The house on Independence Street

On inheritance, illusion, and the uncomfortable truth about change

The roar of the tides: a powerful ocean wave curls and crashes, its deep blue waters shimmering under the light, reflecting both motion and depth, mirroring the ever-changing currents of thought and emotion

Racing the tide

A collection of poems and verses dedicated to all things blue and jade

An elderly woman sits alone in a hospital room, holding her head in her hand

Inheritance of hate between a mother and son

A final confrontation between a mother and son reveals how love, hatred, and memory can exist side by side

Horseshoe crabs resting together against the evening tide, representing inseparable bonds shaped by love

A moving story about relationships, choices, and the hope that it is never too late to return home

A path splitting the forest, giving the traveler the opportunity or the weight of a decision

She is my daughter

Crossing: searching amidst the war

A solitary figure stands silhouetted by a window in an abandoned house, surrounded by fading light and quiet decay

Broken into a better shape

Poems of suffering, resilience, and the long journey toward becoming

A father and son sit across from each other in silence, their tension shaped by control, performance, and the unseen weight of being watched

Puppets without strings

In a world without scripts, the truth becomes the most dangerous act

Hands joined around a fresh coconut under sunlit palms, symbolising loyalty that survived time and separation

A story of how a Vietnamese refugee and a Filipino coconut seller find connection and hope in the unlikeliest of places

A trail of dry leaves in the forest, showing the path to be discovered

Dulcinea in the alley

Crossing: a journey over unfamiliar lands

There wasn’t any nostalgia that could override this feeling; it was above all of that

Running away from him

How far can you run before stopping?

A surreal landscape reflecting themes of time, fragmentation, memory, and emotional transformation inspired by contemporary existential poetry

The night leaking with needle stars

Poems on beauty, silence, and existential unrest

There is a part of me that wants him to walk into my place of work and wonder why I don’t know him anymore

A short story of confronting love lost through film

Cinema for the broken-hearted: "Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind"

A woman gazing into a room lined with iconic bags, symbolising her first glimpse into the life she secretly desired

The room of bags

How a room filled with iconic handbags becomes the backdrop for one woman’s realisation about who she wants to become

A young girl grips a chain-link fence in Idlib, Idlib Governorate, Syria

The things the war could not bury

A fictional portrait of loss, survival, and the fragile remains of hope

An overflow of water submerges land that is usually dry

What is happening?

Maybe visions are dancing in front of my eyes

She believed she was the heat, and as the heat, she felt everything ancient about it, and the primal knowledge that came with it

Death, life, and a return to imagination

A tale of fire thieves

A woman surrounded by layered foliage and quiet air, representing the slow, unseen shifts within identity

Becoming Alice: through the glasshouse

How a moment of confusion opens Alice to a more expansive understanding of who she can be

Better to let go, start fresh somewhere new

I just can’t say goodbye, not on my own

A decaying street shadows the preserved façade of Edgar Allan Poe’s former home, where memory, myth, and neglect blur into one uneasy landscape

The house that madness built

Wandering through poe’s legacy in a landscape of ruin and hallucination

He didn't know what to do; he felt lost without her, but needed to move forward with his life

Running in the dark

You can look, but are you ready for what you find?

Barefoot on the rocks, a model steps into herself grounded in reflection and free to feel

A journey through reflection and the aching pursuit of freedom

A woman walking through a dimly lit street at night

Map of your head

Episode 2: on purity, pressure, and surviving a culture that refuses boundaries

Books and books and books, a collection that is not enough

Maybe it is not below you, but at the very least, you are above it

A heartbroken man, looking through the window on a rainy day, waiting for his lover to come back home

We don't always get what we want

A storm-swept gothic landscape where love, memory, and haunting obsession intertwine—two figures locked in a destructive bond while ghostly echoes of the past linger across the windswept moors

A monstrous young God

A haunted meditation on love, ruin, and the storms of the moors

How did we end up paying for space in the air?

Existential dread from a tower in Vancouver

A burnt out tale from a life unfulfilled

A graceful body suspended in water in a flowy white dress, conveying a weightless, unhurried state that mirrors emotional release

Deep as the ocean, blue as the sea

A story of shedding old layers and returning to the truest self

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