Change on the Horizon

Ocean

By George Alldred   How many travelers, how many wanderers, exalted to have set forth for new horizons lose themselves under this azure blanket. Nothing but the infinite laid before them.   Sinking or swimming, “it’s all the same,” I hear you say. Trapped in the immensity of isolation or the monomania of being its…

FEATURED: Kamena Magazine “Shovelmage”

By Filip Adamczyk in collaboration with Kamena Magazine           She hurried down to Risa’s room only to find it just as empty, although someone had clearly been in it. The bedsheets were torn and sprawled all over the place. The cupboards were pilfered. A heap of clothes lay huddled beside the bed. Tam covered…

Highlands

By Matthew Smith   Taken in the summer in the Glencoe area of the Scottish Highlands   First featured in Issue 11, 25/10/2018. All content owned by Matthew Smith.

Mioritic Space

By Ahmed Sorour “Blaga, a renowned inter-war poet and philosopher, advanced the concept of the Spatiul Mioritic (the Mioritic Space), which provided a definition of the Romanian national identity through a combination of environment and culture. Coming from Egypt, a land of endless sand, camels, and heat, the lush greenery was a welcome change of locale. I…

Welcome To Your New Horizons

By Alexandra Skouloudis   ‘New Horizons’. Two words; a unique opportunity and a thirst to prove yourself. Blood rushes through your veins, your day has acquired new significance, an objective to pursue. Yet somehow, this challenge turns into your worst nightmare. Your stomach aches, your heart burns and you are filled with anxiety. You suddenly…

Why I Travel

By Arisa Loomba   New horizons will keep coming into my life and I will keep chasing them. Plunging into unknown territory, stumbling into a place that you have seen in your imagination only, finding it to be real and physical but better because it exists, gives me a rush. Cracking open the window into…

Seven Billion Horizons

By Arisa Loomba   Taken in Meta, a small Italian village on the Amalfi Coast, and Bangkok and Phuket, Thailand.   First featured in Issue 11, 25/10/2018. All content owned by Arisa Loomba.

Albion’s Demi-Paradise

By Italo Ferrante   Bathing in slimy pity, burning in scorching woes, Buried under leaden memories, bereft of cloudless skies, Broken by fierce nostalgia, bruised by fictional foes, Bashed by violent qualms, beaten by spiked cries.   Oh Britain, thy lush groves shall not outdo my mourning gloom, Oh Britannia, thy pure rivers shall not…

The Edge of the World

By Emilly Taylor   Sickness. The most overwhelming feeling in my gut, the vomit sloshing in my stomach like the waves against the hull of the small fishing boat I am confined too. There are not many options out here; stay in the boat and float towards my doom, or jump ship, and drown. The…