The Snibbet
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.
The Performance
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.
Recursive
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.
The Boy On The Bridge
A teenager rebuilding after a breakdown walks the estuary bridge each day, a ritual of solitude and recovery. One October afternoon, they encounter Daniel Keppler, a former bully, standing alone at the railings. Their eyes meet. No words pass. The next day, news arrives: Daniel took his life that night.
Haunted by the encounter, the protagonist begins to sketch: the bridge, the water, Daniel's unknowable final moments. Through ritual and imagination, they process what can never be understood: two damaged people crossing paths at the threshold, each carrying something too heavy to name.
A quiet story about survival, silence, and the weight of witnessing.
Attunement
Lydian, a skilled archivist surviving under a monetised welfare system, struggles to maintain her independence while paying a steep social and magical price. When a city-wide Arcane collapse exposes the failure of the Doctrine of Autonomy, she and a grassroots practitioner, Nara, ignite a Sympathy-based mutual-aid movement that rewrites the city’s rules and replaces shame with shared care.
The Silence Between Us
A post-apocalyptic story about a young Boy and his telepathic dog, Grit,
The Mind Beasts
Virellia—a society powered by thought-speed. When a catastrophic Aether-Weave Anomaly erupts from collective panic, only Liora, bonded to a colossal tortoise can perceive the crisis without feeding it.
Father, Dearest
A psychological thriller about Clara Hawthorne, a criminal profiler specialising in the anatomy of pathological behaviour, who is working a cold case involving a methodical serial killer.
The Cloakroom Ballet
A quiet meditation on parenting, attachment, and the choreography of care.
The Playground Trial
A searing, surreal reckoning with performance, trauma, and the blurred line between memory and theatre.
The Watchers
A poetic, satirical journey through London’s soul—told by its overlooked animals. This piece is sharp, lyrical, and quietly devastating.
Ginger Retold
A psychological retelling of the Gingerbread Man story. The Gingerbread Man runs not just to avoid being eaten, but because the frantic repetition is the only rhythm that keeps him from dissolving.
Arrivals and Departures
A poignant short story about Dr. Malcolm Forrester, a recently deceased physics professor, who finds himself in a transitional room between the two titular doors.
My Brother, The Stranger
Leo struggles to understand the sudden, secretive changes in his older brother, Alfie.