Are You Mind-Blind?

What it’s like reading and writing without mental pictures

ALTERNATIVE WRITING RESIDENCY FOR DISABLED CREATIVES

THE RESIDENCY

Developing and…

Beautiful Mind

Artist, Poet, Writer, Dyslexic

Brain Jar

There was something I didn’t like about the situation and it wasn’t just the fire. Although I couldn’t see them I could sense something was amiss. The warmth coming from the fire contradicted the mood. Skepticism blended uncomfortably with the heat moving through the formaldehyde in my jar. Although there were…

Her otherness

I liked her  soft questioning of things,
how her eyes changed shape
when she disagreed…

Compassion

In the city I grew up there was a mountain, with a flat top, visible from almost every part of the city. Often a cumulous cloud would hover above it, giving it a full head of curly white hair. Most of the city’s children were carried by their parents up it when they were babies. They had had picnics on some…

Neurodivergent Thinking and Flash Fiction

Flash fiction seems like such a good medium for those of us who find long pieces hard to navigate — they can compact lots into small…