Giving peace a chance is more important than ever It’s 2021. We made it. It has been hard to watch the world burn. With so much devastation at our doors in 2020: deadly bush fires in […]
Author: Jakob Ryce
Writer, poet, wayfarer of a digital age. I write stories, essays and articles. https://medium.com/@jakobryce | @JakobRyce
To Survive as a Writer You Need to Master Rejection
Rejection is not what you think it is A writer’s life is paved with thorns. The sooner you realize this simple truth, the better. Imagine an arena full of tigers and battle-hardened warriors. Some are seasoned […]
You Grew Out Of The Wood
My poem, ‘You Grew Out Of The Wood’ was shortlisted for the Wyndham Writing Awards and included in their 2019 anthology. Thanks to all at Wyndham City Library for including my work. The poem will […]
How a Weird Illness Became My Awakening
Sometimes a little health scare can put life into perspective I recently developed a condition called Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV). It’s a condition triggered by tiny calcium “crystals” inside your inner ear that help […]
Oddity
She’d been buried under a stack of newspapers for years and only emerged for coffee and banana bread when the mood took her. She had a face like eggshells, and was in the habit of […]
Tiny Outfits
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Seven tiny outfits for your infant self pegged to the line like flags in your multicoloured nation, in your infinite future of jargon speak and mind txt: and […]
The Earth Heals at Night
The earth heals at night like a wounded animal scratching out its den. The earth heals at night if the night were a stretch of time, eons of time and we were a splutter in […]
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