Academically haunted
As Iqbal Hadiya moves into her new university home, a mysterious letter slips in from beneath her from door…
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Prose
About the van
‘Sometimes, it’s easy to forget things that lie around.’ Natasha Ranawake reflects on the simpler things that bring meaning to life–such as her family’s old van.
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Ripple
“The ripples of love endure, forever, racing against time”, Depy Indigo Editor Kashish Fatima reflects on how love and compassion is the ultimate legacy in one’s life
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Banana leaves
‘Sometimes I think it’s not enough… I don’t wanna do the easy thing,’ In this short Hemingway-inspired story, L. V. Morgen sets the scene of two men contemplating the mystery of legacy under the hot Colombian sun
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We pocket planets
‘Just for a second, between the coffee and the hangover, you’ll see them. The planets.’ Natasha Ranawake’s piece reminisces the magic and colour which often fades as one grows older, but which are never truly gone.
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Some food for thought
‘Some things remain the same, no matter your age’, Chloe Goodwin meets herself for dinner in this nostalgic prose.
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From Prebends bridge
‘The things I remember most were never in the picture’, Stephanie Mackey traces the course of her life in rivers.
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On belonging
‘You belong to a place by shaping its air into something wild and frizzy, briefly, while imperceptibly unspooling towards belonging’s end,’ Stella Fenwick writes in this reflection on the ivy plant and what it means to ‘belong’ in Durham.
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Letter to Mandarin
‘I still dream in you sometimes. I think that counts for something’, writes Jodi Lee in a letter to Mandarin, expressing nostalgia and complicated love for mother tongues.
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Time
‘How on earth do we keep track of her? Her Strava is definitely rigged’, writes Isobel James in her satirical piece on how fast time goes by.
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