Laughter is… A contagious disease Spreading with speed But those who want to resist Face pain like an angry fist For laughter brings happiness and joy galore Of it we...

The place I escape to is my backyard at night. I look up at the sky, see all the sparkling stars, this curious and marvelous constellation, this wonder of the...

Endings and beginnings. A road to wherever life path is shown before us. We have moved through time and space for a millennia. We have created, we have achieved, we...

Dear Diary, I must admit I’m nervous and sceptical to try time travelling for the first time. Everyone who’s come back has either been gorgeous, athletic or a genius. And...

Every Wednesday afternoon, I would walk to the station with a group of my friends. We would walk quietly through the streets and observe the silent machinations inside the domestic...

My superpower is my imagination, but it is sometimes a burden. I sat to do my maths assessment and instead I wrote lines of battle dialogue in the margins and...

in my fridge i find the meals i did not eat. the lingering / hunger of a girl always too large for her age. / in my fridge is the...

Once upon a time, green tea was bitter tea. Then Stephen Twining told me a common mistake people made with green tea was brewing it in too-hot water. When I...

Laughter is what you conceal when a 9 year old brushes the folded cuff of a linen shirt – newly purchased, freshly ironed- its dark weft inky black and indigo,...

Best friend – I did not know what this word meant until she came into my life. As part of the school choir rehearsals, she and I spent hours trying...

So you want to travel back in time? Or to the future? You wish you could change the past? Or better understand what is to come? Take it from someone...

In the night she will come To grab the wonder from your gum It holds the memories of your laugh The sadness and the pain For each one that falls...

“You know when you’re in Year 7, you’re in a new place and everything’s big and bright and weird?” “Yeah,” she responded. “It was an awkward time for everyone. I...

When the river-man walked among us Wandering throughout the land His bubbling mouth opened without a sound His once pristine waters coated with grime Roaring, he took his revenge upon...

I stepped into the pod slowly, not knowing results or consequences. Would I get stuck in time? I pressed the accelerator and the pod zoomed out. Within a minute, the...