Author: fruitjournal

  • sin pertenecer

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    [Isa Condo-Olvera] tickling my hairmaking the curls bounce and play more than beforetrying to stray from my controluntil they’re exhausted and sweatyand I hate it, but I also love ites mi casa.exhausted, I look at the same blue sky I looked at every morningnunca agradecida por un cielo tan consistentebut I am now,a man with…

  • in all eventuals / there will be singing

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    [Ali Graham]      in all eventuals there will be singing a. I find form a challenging aspect of composition. It asks understanding of its mechanisms and contextualisation of how it has previously appeared in others’ work, and fruitful transposition to effectively produce and consolidate meaning.  My form is apprehensive of prescriptiveness. That my form might…

  • An Eye Contact Simulator

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    [Sarah Dawson & JD Howse] You have been prescribed the use of an eye-contact simulator, as our society, like all societies, values interpersonal connections. There are observations everywhere; sometimes still and sometimes moving, with what you perceive to be hostility. You recoil from unexpected touch, no matter how gentle, incidental, or well intentioned. You must…

  • Love Story

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    [Catherine Madden] Clara came round to tell me that she had a dependant attachment style.             “What does that mean, then?” I mean for me, what does that mean for me?             “It means that I chase what I can’t have and then when I get it I don’t want it.” “Well, at least you…

  • English Breakfast & Instructions on Sharing a Bed

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    [Stephanie Dogfoot] Stephanie Dogfoot (she/they) is a poet and stand up comic based in Singapore. They are the author of ‘Roadkill for Beginners’, a poetry collection published by Math Paper Press in 2019. They curate a regular poetry night called Spoke & Bird, and have won poetry slam championships in Singapore and the UK. They are…

  • what a shame,

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    [Kostya Tsolakis] this precious galaxy of spittle shooting out of my mouth onto the gum-infested kerb this sober Sunday morning, not into the coral throat of a kneeling lad on boots-only night at the Vault – his wide-open eyes, fixed on the driblet hanging off my lip, saying: you & I are earth & we…

  • Real Together & I Am

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    [Alicia Byrne Keane] Alicia Byrne Keane is a PhD student from Dublin, Ireland, working on an Irish Research Council-funded PhD study that problematizes ‘vagueness’ and the ethics of translation in the work of Samuel Beckett and Haruki Murakami, at Trinity College Dublin. Alicia’s poems have appeared in The Moth, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, Impossible Archetype, Abridged,…

  • Venus of the Underfunded hospital

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    [Ali Graham]It might have been a metal beaten and rubbed / to amirror or another austere thing – / navel in the belly ofthe Venus / of Urbino, postcard of which I have /because if she would / I would. For how she grips roses/ not from the stem but above / she is not…

  • Editorial

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    Welcome to the first issue of Fruit! Fruit came about because of a lack. As queer writers ourselves, it was frustrating to find so few easily accessible, UK-based queer literary magazines. We were looking for a journal which was free to read, free to submit to, and which didn’t set restrictions on content or form;…

  • Kate

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    [Brodie Crellin] When I was eleven I was given my own gun. I kept it in a black case beneath my bed and once a month on Sunday mornings I would line up with the other preteens and respond to the commands, “watch and shoot!” with genuine dedication. Standing in the sports halls of elite…