A short story by current UEA creative writing student Kristien Potgieter, which tells a tale of ballet, friendship and accidental betrayal.

When I wake up my whole body feels stiff and heavy, my skin tight like I’ve grown in my sleep and now it’s straining to cover twice as much of me...

This is an extract from a novel-in-progress, provisionally entitled, Heartsick. Ellie isn’t supposed to die yet: she’s only twenty-two. But...

It was all the giant, pulley-type things and strange machinery painted in thick yellows and blues that came first, riding...

Excerpt from a novel-in-progress. By eleven Anita was drunk. She’d had three screwdrivers on an empty stomach and danced far...

He sits there looking across the river, waiting for her to arrive. In the top pocket of the old army...

Extract from an early draft of a novel set in Queensland, Australia, in 1877 My first real experience of the...

Extract from a novel Men hate condoms but can’t admit why. Usually our excuse is the extra pressure they bring...

Extract from a novel The lake was always a surprise. The edges were his. He could cut their shape into...

Chapter one of a novel * Boom. The crash rattles the house, knocks flat all the ornaments on her television...