Fiction - The Sentinel by Yuvoice

FICTION

Fiction provides the opportunity to explore your deepest thoughts and enriches our understanding of how the world could be. From daring adventures to lovelorn dramas, please enjoy short stories regarding the fantastic and the fearful, the hopeful and the heartbreaking, and abandon yourself to your imagination!

Fiction provides the opportunity to explore your deepest thoughts and enriches our understanding of how the world could be. From daring adventures to lovelorn dramas, please enjoy short stories regarding the fantastic and the fearful, the hopeful and the heartbreaking, and abandon yourself to your imagination!

A woman’s hand reaches into a filing cabinet hesitantly. It almost looks like her hand is coming to the surface of a body of water that she is desperately trying to escape.

Offboarding

By Oliver Roberts

A grayscale image of a young boy, maybe five years old, grasping his parent’s arm firmly as they walk away on the sidewalk.

Recidivist Phantoms

By Oliver Roberts

A grayscale photograph of a young woman, with frizzy hair, sitting in a coffee shop, poring over her writing. There are multiple empty coffee cups on the table beside her; she has been there a while.

INK

By Sofia Tietze

Tree branches and trunks forming a hollow in the forest

Velveteen Reality

By Lilian Le-Diep

A hand, fingers outstretched, is covered in dark thorns. Another hand reaches up to grasp the first, being pricked by its thorns. Blood trickles down the second hand’s index finger.

Biblical Gardens

By Sofia Tietze

A woman hands her application documents to the interviewer.

Maggie Mascot

By Oliver Roberts

A bookshop, its wares enticingly presented through a curved view, invites the viewer in.

Open Books

By Lilian Le-Diep

A silhouetted man stands in a swirl of flame and orange-yellow fireworks light against a dark cityscape.

Ever Be Forgot

By Oliver Roberts

A young woman holds a dark loaf of bread. The loaf is cracked, and round like the sun.

Maggie’s Invitation

By Danial Zaili

POETRY >

Blue canopy over red-blanketed wooden bed.

Ode To The Bed

By Yosef Baskin | 1 week ago

Moonscalding

By Jarrod Wetzel-Brown | 2 weeks ago

Of What Then Could Become

By Kristen McConville | 4 weeks ago

FEATURES >

A decorative plate containing rice, meat and vegetables.

Backing New Beginnings: Refugee Entrepreneurs Find Support Across Britain

By Carolyn Cohn | 1 month ago

Co-working app takes on café life with one-hour slots

By Carolyn Cohn | 3 months ago

Brazilian Music Icon Milton Nascimento Awarded Honorary Doctorate

By Ana Lívia Vale | 3 months ago

LIFESTYLE >

A woman reading text on her phone.

Is There a Library in Your Future?

By Lilian Le-Diep | 2 weeks ago

Moonlighting as an Extrovert

By Lilian Le-Diep | 3 weeks ago

Travel Slow

By Maximilian Pollok | 4 weeks ago

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A man in shadow wears a ring light as a halo. His eyes are closed, and he looks exhausted.

Bombs Go “TikTok”

By Fredrick Odongo

An empty hospital bed sits against a wall, IV bag hanging above. A sliver of sunlight illuminates the bed as the rest of the background is steeped in shadow.

Mr. Sweeney’s Sandbox

By Jarrod Wetzel-Brown

An autumn walk in the park, low to the ground. The trees are decorated in gold and dusty orange leaves, and the day is bright with sunshine.

All Yours

By Oliver Roberts

A person in a red dress, decorated in white hearts, cradles freshly picked apples in their skirt. The fruits are plump and look delicious.

Thoreau Plays Stardew Valley

By Danial Zaili

A woman sits in the dark while red binary text covers her body and conceals her identity.

Life Stock

By Oliver Roberts

A shadowy hand reaches for a coffee drink on a wooden table.

A Macchiato with Ennui

By Jake Stevens

A woman, dressed in black, holds her finger over a blood-red candle that drips slowly. The entire scene is lit in a ghoulish green-blue light.

A Grave Scribe Tale: Fatal Fame

By The Grave Scribe

A woman stands, staring out of a large window, while evergreen boughs dressed in lights frame the scene.

Window Sweets

By Jarrod Wetzel-Brown

A red wall with a white window housing a lace curtain and two child figurines staring out onto the world.

You Wake Up In Your Childhood Bedroom

By Sue-Joyce Headon