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25 Dec

Change Matters

Gold award in the QCEC competition, 2023. Rani looked at the half baked clay pots as they lay battered by the furious rays of the sun, which cleaved their soft muddy interiors into hardened shells. She ran her fingers around the little cracks and crevices which formed around their mouths, and patched them with more […]

18 Jul

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Survival- Wilbur Smith Commendation

Sound. The trickling of the nearby stream. The rustling of the leaves from an overhead tree. The far off screeching of a monkey. And then nothing. Nothing except for the steady throbbing of the hearts inside her womb. They were thriving. Touch. There seemed to be some sort of rough-hewn hemp all around her, with […]

26 May

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The Fickle Fish

A fish can be fickle, light can be intimate, ideas can be slippery and thoughts can be watered down to an iridescent nothingness. The fickle fish weaves in and out of the water, details flashing amongst her scales. Details. The way the water parts at the swish of a fin. The way the rays dance […]

13 Mar

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The Sandero

I walked along the Chámps de Élysée, my knee high black boots clacking sharply on the cobbled pavement. The deluge from the dirty rain pooled in puddles along the sidewalk, and formed a web of water trickling into the drains of France. I could see my reflection in the blurry pools of water ahead of […]

Vandalism of Van Gogh’s Painting on 16/10/22

28 Jan

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Vandalism of Van Gogh’s Painting on 16/10/22

My mother says that An eye for an eye Will make the world Go blind. Social media says that Desecration for activism, Soup on sunflower, Will make the world Go blind. The activist says that If art is worth More than life, It will make the world Go blind. Artists proudly say that Van Gogh […]

06 Dec

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Visionary

Won Silver Award in the Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Writing Competition, 2022. Topic: Her Majesty The Queen was born in the twentieth century, a period that saw enormous social change driven by visionary and committed leaders. Reflect on an inspirational leader from this period. Pre- Note: This account, although fictionally compiled, is based on true events. […]

11 Oct

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Watch, Feel, Be

Theme: Switch HG Wells Short Story Writing Competition I face a square television at one end of my bedroom. There is nothing but me and the television. The television and me. I cannot go out. No one can come in. And so, I listen to the television. The South China Sea comes shabbily into view, […]

05 Aug

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Lup-Dup

Topic: Scientists have picked up a radio signal ‘heartbeat’ billions of light-years away,” reads an article headline published by NPR last Thursday from a report that astronomers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology picked up radio signals that repeat in a clear periodic pattern similar to a beating heart from a galaxy billions of light-years […]