The Night & I
we are the same, the Night and I blinking into the corridor— nothing tangible here when the darkness is in me the fear goes where? I...
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Hayley Gabrielle
- Dec 8, 2019
- 1 min
That Place
One day I will visit that place where love is set aside. I will hold the pieces in my hands and wonder how they haven't died. With my...
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Hayley Gabrielle
- Nov 13, 2019
- 11 min
The Law of Dreams - A Short Story
I met Law on a day like all the other days. I noticed him first because he was young, and second because his eyes were the greenest I’d...
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Hayley Gabrielle
- Jun 12, 2019
- 5 min
“Why are you the way that you are?”
“Why are you the way that you are?” We laugh at the unashamed hatred Michael Scott directs Toby Flenderson’s way on The Office, but...
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Hayley Gabrielle
- Dec 11, 2018
- 8 min
Red-Handed (A Short Story)
Only when night left my room in shadow did I feel her settle beside me, alert but feather light, how she always began. “Piper, wake up....
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Hayley Gabrielle
- Oct 18, 2018
- 1 min
Into Him
why do I fall so easily? they say that love is a strength, so why do I feel weak when I leap down down into its depths so far it sends me...
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Hayley Gabrielle
- Sep 2, 2018
- 1 min
2018 Alan Marshall Short Story Award - AN HONOUR
Yesterday was the announcement of the 2018 Alan Marshall Short Story Awards - and I was over the MOON to be awarded the Local Prize for...
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Hayley Gabrielle
- Jun 24, 2018
- 12 min
One Star (A Short Story)
I should probably clarify now—this was Owen’s idea, okay? It might sound insane, but he had this way of putting things to me in such...
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Hayley Gabrielle
- May 17, 2018
- 2 min
Ebb & Flow
A poetic reflection on love, first written November 2017.
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Hayley Gabrielle
- Mar 27, 2018
- 1 min
Forgotten Socks
In the past month or so, I've made the decision to self-publish my first book on Amazon. The digital version of Essence will be available...
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Hayley Gabrielle
- Dec 13, 2017
- 2 min
City of Bones: Time For Something New
I began City of Bones with soaring expectations. As the book I'm writing would likely be classified as young adult fiction, I felt it...
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Hayley Gabrielle
- Nov 3, 2017
- 6 min
I Am
So there's this game. I know it all too well, and you're likely to have played it a few times too. It's called I'm Good Thanks. How it...
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Hayley Gabrielle
- Oct 29, 2017
- 2 min
Making the Little Things Big
We were sitting in a quaint Indian restaurant, dimly lit with only one other table occupied. It was the sort of place where the staff...
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Hayley Gabrielle
- Oct 9, 2017
- 2 min
Wear the Sparkly Socks
It has come to my attention that along with such simple pleasures as eating nutella straight from the jar, or winding down the car...
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Hayley Gabrielle
- Oct 5, 2017
- 3 min
Harness Empathy: Find the Voice
The writer's 'voice'. The 'voice' of a protagonist. Voice. Voice. Voice. In all my literature and writing studies, the importance of...
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Hayley Gabrielle
- Jun 15, 2017
- 2 min
'The Time I Met You'
I remember the time. The time I met you. It was subtle and passing but unmoving and rigid all at once, as if I could lay a finger on you...
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Hayley Gabrielle
- Jun 15, 2017
- 3 min
The Author Envy Trap
Does anyone else feel pretentious saying – “I’m writing a novel”? The few times I’ve been asked what I’m doing on my laptop, or what I’ve...
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Hayley Gabrielle
- Jun 15, 2017
- 2 min
Whisper Into the Abyss
After spending an entire hour switching between fonts that frankly look almost identical - I finally landed on 'Lato'. And I'm still...
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