REVIEW: NAFEESA HAMID’S ‘BESHARAM’

REVIEW: NAFEESA HAMID’S ‘BESHARAM’

REVIEW: NAFEESA HAMID’S ‘BESHARAM’ BESHARAM BY NAFEESA HAMID Verve Poetry Press ISBN: 978-1 912565 05 4 £9.99/108 pages   Reviewed by Stella Backhouse What intrigues me most about Nafeesa Hamid’s début collection Besharam (One who is shameless) is the innovative...
RITUALS FICTION: ‘THE CUCUMBERS’ BY IAN CUSACK

RITUALS FICTION: ‘THE CUCUMBERS’ BY IAN CUSACK

The Cucumbers Ian Cusack Lawrence Martin and Richard Stevens once were lovers. They met in jail. Lawrence the deviant dentist with a shameful hard drive; crammed with images of men pissing. Legal static snaps of consensual urolagnia and illegal videos of male clients,...
Tomorrow Fiction: ‘My Space’ by Nick Wray

Tomorrow Fiction: ‘My Space’ by Nick Wray

My Space Nick Wray He was late – even though the email had told him where and when the spaceship would appear. And there it was, a white-hot ember flying through the sky above him! At ‘apogee’…literally the high point. For an instant, the extra-terrestrial craft hung...

‘Diplomacy’ by Wesley O. Cohen

HCE received a lot of high-quality submissions for The Brutal Issue – sadly, too many to fit inside the magazine! So we offered some of our shortlisted contributors the chance to be published on our website. Keep an eye on our social media for more great writing like...