Author: fruitjournal

Welcome to Fruit! We’re excited to share Issue 2 with you. Inside, you’ll find voices from the UK, the USA, Nigeria, Gibraltar and other countries, and writing that’s incredibly varied both in its form and focus.  It’s taken a little longer than anticipated to put issue 2 together. The main reason for that delay is…

[Deji Payne] We stay in different postures beneath the flame trees that line the front of the hostel. The rocky pathway beneath is strewn with orange petals that the trees have shaken off. I stand beneath the tree closest to the gate, the one farthest from the junction where Counsel lays in wait, the red…

[Frank Duffy] Aching in the heat I remember: it has been a long time since I tasted pomegranate  I descend cool stone steps  A moment of dark transition  A sensious glow draws me further down I ease into the juicy memory of rubies bursting on my tongue Frank Duffy is a non-binary trans illustrator, graphic…

[Avrina Prabala-Joslin] At the edge of town where no one lives is the oval canteen. Where the road ends it begins. Neon arrows, that can sometimes just lead you on, sometimes take you there. Above the heavy doors is a neon sign announcing the oval canteen. Remember, if you’re here, you’re not elsewhere. Once Flavian…

[Brett Darling] There was an aloneness to it, his breathing. And in that breath which the stranger drew, since he was larger, and more powerful than I was, I watched him from that quiet, backward facing repose, as he fought the impulse to speak that which would betray our heartbreak, the very failure of our…

[Jonathan Pizarro] He asked you to dance for him, so you did. In that long narrow bar with the DJ booth shaped like a disco ball. On Dean Street or Greek Street or Frith Street. You can’t tell them apart, these labyrinths and basements. You’ve never had so many streets before. Back in Gibraltar there…

[Jiaqi Kang (亢嘉琪)] Jiaqi Kang (亢嘉琪) is a Sino-Swiss editor, writer, and art historian. She is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Sine Theta Magazine, an international, print-based creative arts publication made by and for the Sino diaspora. She read History of Art at Oxford University. Find her here.

The Shower is a Symbol of Living [Ashley Barr] CHARACTERS (in order of appearance): Subject-less-ness: a tenant and a sense of being nowhere Kira: author of The Bathroom, Professor Emeritus of Architecture at Cornell University Scabies: a reappearance and a camera Narrator: anonymous, bodiless, in the 2004 channel 4 historical reality tv show Regency House…

[Peter Scalpello] tend er oppressed  &  hypersexual,  i question  what’s  the  link between  violence  &  homoero ticism  as  the  boiler  churns. you  fucking  love  me  &  say it  again,  hard  knuckle my  back  so  sheets  dampen  in taps  to  the  romance  of sacrifice.  the  rumour  of sobriety  allows  no  ritual,  so our  love  is  not …

[Jay Délise] Jay Délise is a US/UK based poet and performer creating in the combined world of theatre, poetry, and storytelling. A native of the Jersey Shore, Jay is a poet who has received national recognition for her writing. As a Scholastic Art and Writing Awards National Gold Key recipient, Jay has performed at locations…