Jess Boyes

Joined August 2021

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From Melbourne, Australia, I love creative writing and food, particularly a good quality cheese or some sort of dairy.

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Lucky Dip
No one knows where the drones came from. They just appeared one day, and they haven’t stopped since. They come from any direction, can arrive at any time, and can be for anyone. What we do know is that one arrives with a package, and that it arrives every day. Every. Single. Day.
By Jess Boyes3 years ago in Fiction
Pain Away
Have you ever noticed, how you try to explain the pain away, but they can't hear it? To away the pain, you explain, to help them; make them understand.
By Jess Boyes3 years ago in Poets
Her Space. Top Story - October 2022.
The warmth of his body, she is the size of a child in his arms as she melts into him. A long, deep breath he makes in slumber, tickling the base of her neck,
By Jess Boyes3 years ago in Poets
Until Tomorrow
Not sure why they think it’s ok, to just throw away, these feelings like nothing. The emptiness inside, not worth the time, but it’s there, a deep hole; a deep cavern.
By Jess Boyes4 years ago in Poets
Blue-Eyed Girl
The early morning air is crisp as the sun rises; standing at the base of the bridge, Detectives Sallow and Martel take in the scene of their forensic team taking photos and collecting samples from the body that lays by the river.
By Jess Boyes4 years ago in Fiction
Halloween Mood
As an Australian, Halloween is nowhere near as big an event as it is in the U.S, but man I wish it was. What I would give to be able to travel over to celebrate Halloween in America. I reckon it would be an absolute blast! Fingers crossed that I'll get to do it one of these days.
By Jess Boyes4 years ago in Beat
I Partied Like it was 1999...until I Couldn't. Third Place in Coming of Age Challenge. Top Story - September 2021.
Some of what I’m about to share is not my memory, but what has been pieced together with what I’ve been told by those who were there; I don’t actually remember some of it.
By Jess Boyes4 years ago in Psyche
Tolkien Got Me into Reading
The first time I came across, ‘The Lord of the Rings’, it wasn’t the book(s), but Ralph Bakshi’s 1978 (incomplete) animated film, and it scared the absolute bejesus out of me.
By Jess Boyes4 years ago in Geeks
Where the Peace is
It’s waking on a Sunday as the sun comes up, still rugged up, lying in bed in silence. The distant sound of birds chirping softly,
By Jess Boyes4 years ago in Poets
Switch On
As we switch on, we LOGIN and scroll through nothing, killing the time, like or react, but with no interaction, on social, but not social, with no satisfaction,
By Jess Boyes4 years ago in Poets
Persian Style Fetta
Persian style fetta is a drained curd, fresh cheese. Unlike Greek style fetta, Persian fetta is softer, creamier and lower in salt.
By Jess Boyes5 years ago in Feast
Breakthrough
“I want you to take a slow, deep breath in, counting down from 6,… 5,… 4,… 3,… 2,… 1, then slowly exhaling as deep down as you can go, counting down from 6,… 5,… 4,… 3,… 2,… 1, and again...”
By Jess Boyes5 years ago in Fiction

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Lucky Dip

Pain Away

Her Space. Top Story - October 2022.

Until Tomorrow

Blue-Eyed Girl

Halloween Mood

I Partied Like it was 1999...until I Couldn't. Third Place in Coming of Age Challenge. Top Story - September 2021.

Tolkien Got Me into Reading

Where the Peace is

Switch On

Persian Style Fetta

Breakthrough

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