Cover Features
Talk the Walk
Time to drop the ‘S’ word
By Maria Amir
“Because women’s work is never...
Featured Essays
The Digital Battleground
The Digital Battleground
Waging war on the internet, one comment at a time
by Aaron Grierson
Everyone knows about news on various scales; local, national, international. The internet helps facilitate faster access to information, from Google, to news websites, to posts on social media. The potential for...
Featured Spotlight
Spotlight Entrepreneur: Aamina Jehangir
Spotlight Entrepreneur: Aamina Jehangir
Ghausia Rashid Salam sits down with a young and enterprising baker; part philanthropist, part artist, Aamina Jehangir seems to have it all figured out.
Aamina Jehangir tried her hand at baking for the first time as an unassuming 4 year-old. As she laughingly explains,...
Featured Fiction
Through Windows
Through Windows
by Michael Owen Fisher
6 FEB 2009
Iain is washing up when a light comes on across the quadrangle. He sees a smudge of movement in the window opposite him and reaches for his glasses. A young woman is clasping a towel to her chest. Iain drops to the floor, scurries on all fours across the...
Featured Poetry
The Trapping
by Ben Parker
Just once, in shame, he refuses;
his turning snags her words on air.
Rock-blue, her pupils bloom.
From his dust she eases him; the scream
unspools like hurried leaves.
Her practised hand unlocks the pine,
the inner tree exhales,
its hidden trunk exposed.
The bole weakens to take...
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