Violent Delights

by Charlotte Anne Gaffney

“This is a horror story in the vain of American Psycho, where you are trapped in the head of a unhinged girl, unable to escape and witnessing the havoc she causes. The story is a therapeutic piece for the author. She harnessed lots of anger and pain from her first experience at university and explored them though the protagonist Violet’s world view.”

Charlotte is a second year Media and Communications student who is taking the creative writing practical module. She is an avid film watcher watching any film she stumbles across. Recently she has been diving into Japanese cinema and anime, which involves several re-watches of Kiki’s Delivery Service. She is a veracious reader, devouring novels that are translated fiction, deal with horror and mental illness. She puts these themes in her prose writing. She takes long walks around the nearby parks either binge listening to true crime podcasts or off in existential panic. You can locate her on Instagram @books_can_roar.

a shade of grey

by Samara

A shade of grey is a (censored) rant of the imperfections that are boiling over in the world today, inequality, injustice and incredible amounts of hypocrisy. This piece is a mixture of poetry and prose, however I couldn’t seem to conform to one style as I wrote it down; it didn’t flow naturally, and so I just went with it. I wrote this piece in one sitting and I truly got the inspiration from the deep sadness I experienced one Tuesday evening. The process of penning down my thoughts was cathartic and allowed me to make sense of my frustrations and encouraged me to look for another perspective by which I can view these injustices to prevent myself from being negative most of the time. Don’t ask me what that perspective is yet, I’m still looking!

An enthusiastic creator, Samara loves to spend time on her laptop typing away. Writing allows her to make sense of the world: its imperfections and beauty. When the imperfections bother her, she types aggressively and loudly, but when conveying the worlds beauty, it is soft and gentle. Samara tries her best to allow the reader an insight into her mind, her thinking and perspectives. After all, storytelling, whether fact or fiction, makes life that much more captivating. 

Instagram: @samara_kumar

Group blog: https://www.unauthorizedperspectives.com/