A quiet moment between two people in a warm café, one carrying invisible burdens made visible. This image reflects the heart of Keep Smiling: the tension between supporting someone you love and holding your own unspoken weight. It captures the poem’s central truth — that empathy often happens in both directions, even when only one story is being told.

Something moves through Linden Close at dusk. The animals know it has been there. The clocks are still ticking.

When Abbie visits Tom's house, she's so excited to meet his cat that she shouts and runs - sending the frightened cat zooming behind the sofa! But with Tom's help, Abbie learns the cat's special language of flat ears, swishy tails, and gentle purrs, and discovers that the best friendships are the ones you earn.

A family in a fictional northern English town carries its grief the only way it knows how: in silence.

Juno arrives on Elaris expecting handshakes and speeches. Instead, she's immediately thrust into a hand-feeding ritual where an elder places luminescent food directly into her mouth.

A year in the life of five strangers who meet every Tuesday at 2pm in a pharmacy queue, united by their need for repeat prescriptions.

Some people move through the world making noise. Thirteen-year-old Leo has learnt to be still. But when an old illustrated book vanishes from the bookshelf, Leo discovers something extraordinary living in the walls of the Victorian house: the Snibbit, a small magical creature that collects beautiful things and understands that silence can be full of meaning. Through carefully preserved fragments from the past, the Snibbit teaches Leo how to navigate a world that isn't built for quiet people.

Leo was a naturally sociable seven-year-old who ate slowly but his teacher, Mrs Davie,s misinterpreted his difficulty as misbehaviour and repeatedly accused him of "chatting too much" during school lunches.

In a kingdom where the King declares war on numbers, communicates with pineapples, and maps military strategies on breakfast cereals, young Peabody might be the only sane person left—though that's not saying much when you live in a treehouse held together by duct tape and stubbornness, fifty feet above where the ground used to be before your grandmother accidentally knitted it into a cushion. When the Princess vanishes and the palace descends into weaponised chaos involving backwards bagpipe music, a philosophising baked bean drowning in custard, and a teddy bear whose broken watch hums Andrew Lloyd Webber as a form of prophecy, Peabody is summoned to solve the mystery using his greatest talent: the ability to listen without screaming about root vegetables. What he discovers is far more dangerous than any kidnapping—a clever girl who's had quite enough of the madness, a machine that translates nonsense into sense, and the revolutionary idea that perhaps, just perhaps, a kingdom shouldn't be run like an elaborate joke that's forgotten its punchline.

Liam is drowning under the pressure of his A-Levels, and his fury is becoming impossible to contain. He's tried everything: ranting to his sister, punishing runs, pushing his body to the limit, but the anger only grows stronger. When his usual coping strategies spectacularly fail him at the worst possible moment, he stumbles upon a scientific truth that changes everything he thought he knew about managing rage. What follows is a journey from destructive heat to careful cooling, and the discovery that sometimes the answer isn't releasing the pressure, it's learning to turn down the flame.

After a student dies, his classmates build a memorial wall, organise a tribute gig, and perform their grief for an audience. But as the event approaches, some of them begin to ask uncomfortable questions about who they're really doing this for and why no one noticed when it mattered.

As Brian attempts to shape Tobias’s story, the boundaries between creator and character begin to blur, revealing deeper truths about avoidance, shame, and the fragile process of healing. Told with quiet intensity and recursive structure, the piece explores how fiction can become a mirror; and sometimes a conversation, between the writer and the parts of themselves they’re afraid to face.

A meticulous scholar obsessed with achieving perfection through dark magic has left a trail of disappeared victims across Victorian London. As he prepares his final, most powerful ritual, a rational detective follows an impossible pattern of evidence that challenges everything he believes about reality. When their paths collide, logic confronts the supernatural in a desperate race to stop a man who has discovered that reality itself can be reshaped—at a terrible cost. A psychological dark fantasy where obsession, horror, and investigation intertwine in the shadowy streets of a city hiding ancient secrets.