Issue 1 index


Editorial
Meet the Editors & Designers


Contents

St.Tobaq
Rhys Shanahan

Rice Paper
Damon Young

Hopkins & Hallam
Note from Naomi Lebens

Before I go I have to say...
Kate Pursglove

Some Other Where
Steven Matthews

Weekend Poems: Breakfast
Eleanor Burleigh

Aged 7
Jean Watkins

Childhood & Plastic People
Zeng Chen

Street Scene
Peter Robinson

A Martian Writes
Michael Hutchinson

The Tarot Reading of The Fool
Anonymous

Stop Making Sense & Bla bla bla
Jenna Fox

Fringe Festival
Claire Dyer

When you have hope of life returning, this
Kate Noakes

Broadwood 7362
Gill Learner

A Drop in the Ocean
Lindsey Jones

Pitch of Ghosts
Vic Pickup

23rd February 2021
Kitty Hawkins

The Sofa
Tara Bermingham

Trophies on a Windowsill? & Still (monetizing) Life
Laura Rozamunda

Good to know perhaps, but nothing to be done
Kate Noakes

Heading Out
Michael Anania

The Threshold
David Brauner

Birds
Hannah Lily

Park Recollection
Liam Anslow-Sucevic

Balloons
Rhianna Bryon

Ephemerality of the World
Salma Haque

The August Elvis Died
Gill Learner


Reprieve
Michael Anania


Hit Me Gently
Daisy Dickens


The Tarot Reading of The Fool


The Wheel of Fortune is fickle; it turns around pulling mortals to depths and highs just as the jester plays the fiddle. The Emperor gives blessing to The Fool who set off on her journey for the unknown; hoping to find The Sun, The Moon and the Star, to find meaning from The World. With Temperance and Strength she traversed the temptations of The Devil.

Yet when The Empress stabs with swords nine, as The Hierophant speaks to The Hanged Man now bleeding in despair; that The Tower has been set aflame, that her journey so far has been for nought, Death comes with The Chariot of Judgement. Longing for Justice for the unjust.

Let The High Priestess lay to rest the innocent soul who thought that for once the Wheel of Fortune was turning in her favour.

The Lovers cry for her hopes, The Magician laments her ambitions. The Hermit tells her tale so that no other Fool sets off again. Fortune is mercurial. Life is unfair. And none of them favoured her.



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