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• The Wyrdechildren

  31st March, trans day of visibility, 2026 Have you heard the legend of the wyrdechildren, my dear? Well, the fae’ aren’t like you or I; their finger bones are stitched with wet clay, their eyes are astragali, which rattle in their skulls and tell the fates of mortals, and their voices are like sirens, singing…

  SomethingLikeThisOrThat

  March 31, 2026

  stories

  author, fairy tale, fiction, lgbtq+, poetry, trans rights, trans rights are human rights, transgender, writing

• Manufacturing Hope (before it all runs out)

  Hope is a bird with a broken wing;it keeps beating the air and singing it’s songas it tumbles from the embrace of the sky.I hope it learns that the ground is no kinder –I hope it learns that love is a horizon that can’t always be reached – I hope it learnsthat in that moment,…

  SomethingLikeThisOrThat

  March 2, 2026

  poetry

  author, Existential, hope, iran, palestine, poem, poetry, writing

• sky

  it wasn’t until I was lying on my back, the lifeblood draining out of me, that I finally looked up – I’d never realised how beautiful the sky was until I was losing it.

  SomethingLikeThisOrThat

  February 4, 2026

  poetry

  author, Existential, poet, poetry, writer, writing