CLASSIFIED POETRY: ‘PATIENCE’ BY RC deWinter
Patience RC deWinter some days nothing works but the medulla your heart beats you breathe and it feels like an accomplishment yet there is an elegance in the silence of the dark as if the world is about to reveal a secret i am listening RC deWinter’s...
CLASSIFIED FICTION: ‘VINTAGE FINDS, FREE, THIS SATURDAY’ BY LOGAN MALONE
Posted: Vintage Finds, Free, This Saturday Logan Malone Grandma stuck it out for two years and ten rounds of chemo before cancer won. Ten years before her, Grandpa had had a heart attack in his office and was dead within ten minutes. They’d spent their...
CLASSIFIED FICTION: ‘THE FLIES AT THE POOL IN DC’ BY DOUGLAS MACDONALD
The Flies at the Pool in DC Douglas Macdonald Through the hedge, a gleam of azure. Beyond the black iron railings the pool glistened like a layer of sky ripped out and spread before us like a blanket at a picnic. Me and Avril. No...
CLASSIFIED POETRY: ‘NIPPLES’ BY BELAYIA
Nipples Belayia what’s the difference between yours and mine why must mine be censored why can you be topless on sunny afternoons without consequence whereas i cannot even go braless beneath a jumper without being subject to hungry eyes what makes yours so...
CLASSIFIED FICTION: ‘THE BROWN LEATHER BRIEFCASE’ BY DAVID ROWLANDSON
The Brown Leather Briefcase David Rowlandson It was a peasouper out on the streets of Berlin. The fluorescent strip lights in the Atomic Research Laboratory burnt bright that 1948 winter’s evening. Karl Shultz, archive clerk, looked at the office clock...
CLASSIFIED ARTWORK: ‘HOP PURR’ BY DIGGER DEEKY
Hop Purr Digger Deeky Bio: Merry-Do-Well
CLASSIFIED FICTION: ‘WORKS UNIT’ BY ADAM MARKS
Works Unit Adam Marks RAF Welford is an active Royal Air Force station in Berkshire, England, located approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) northwest of Newbury; about 50 miles (80 km) west-southwest of London. Opened in March 1943, it was used during the...
CLASSIFIED POETRY: ‘CAVEAT EMPTOR’ BY ANN ATKINS
Caveat Emptor Ann Atkins Flicking through the pages to the classified ads Searching for bargains to be had 5 door hatchback in midnight blue One careful owner – (Sorry about the other two?) So we ring the number – Takes a while to get through The ad...
CLASSIFIED ARTWORK: ‘TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS ZONES’ BY REMI ANDREWS
Temporary Autonomous Zones Remi Andrews REMI ANDREWS is a Birmingham based, multi-disciplinary artist/ street artist, formally trained at the Birmingham School of Art. Her work is informed by an abiding interest...
CLASSIFIED NON-FICTION: ‘THE BATTLE FOR THE LIGHT SKIN’ BY NALEDI COMET MOKGWATHI
The Battle for the Light Skin – A Deadly Classification Naledi Comet Mokgwathi Growing up in Botswana, I've always known that white people were better than black people. And just below them, on the world scale of the "better and more beautiful people",...