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The Lonely Crowd

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Literary journal — thelonelycrowd.org https://linktr.ee/thelonelycrowd

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The Lonely Crowd@thelonelycrowd.bsky.social · 2w ago

Issue 15 of The Lonely Crowd will be published on Sept. 7th. Featuring new work from Jo Mazelis, John Freeman @glynedwards.bsky.social Lauren Camp, Hugo Kelly, Maeve McKenna, Adrian Masters, Rowena Macdonald, Caroline Stockford, Neil Campbell, Aideen Henry & more thelonelycrowd.org/online-shop-...

The Lonely Crowd / Issue 15 – Online Shop – The Lonely Crowd

Issue 15 will be published on September 7th. UK customers can pre-order now and receive free shipping. A Page of Knots – Vona Groarke / Local Colour – Tim MacGabhann / Three Poems – P. C. Evans / A Qu...

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The Lonely Crowd@thelonelycrowd.bsky.social · 2w ago

Issue 15 of The Lonely Crowd will be published on September 7th. Featuring new work from @elfodongo.bsky.social @pcevans.bsky.social @eleanorhooker.bsky.social @jonathangibbs.bsky.social @katefeld.bsky.social @tomvowler.bsky.social @bentufnell.bsky.social & more thelonelycrowd.org/online-shop-...

The Lonely Crowd / Issue 15 – Online Shop – The Lonely Crowd

Issue 15 will be published on September 7th. UK customers can pre-order now and receive free shipping. A Page of Knots – Vona Groarke / Local Colour – Tim MacGabhann / Three Poems – P. C. Evans / A Qu...

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The Lonely Crowd@thelonelycrowd.bsky.social · 2w ago

Issue 15 of The Lonely Crowd will be published on September 7th. Featuring new work from Vona Groarke, Alison Moore, Jacob Polley, Richard Milward @nualaoconnor.bsky.social @sarahdavywrites.bsky.social @janefraserwriter.bsky.social @ruthmckee.bsky.social @naomikruger.bsky.social & more

The Lonely Crowd / Issue 15 – Online Shop – The Lonely Crowd

Issue 15 will be published on September 7th. UK customers can pre-order now and receive free shipping. A Page of Knots – Vona Groarke / Local Colour – Tim MacGabhann / Three Poems – P. C. Evans / A Qu...

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The Lonely Crowd@thelonelycrowd.bsky.social · 2w ago

Issue 15 of The Lonely Crowd will be published on Sept. 7th. Featuring new work from Jo Mazelis, John Freeman @glynedwards.bsky.social Lauren Camp, Hugo Kelly, Maeve McKenna, Adrian Masters, Rowena Macdonald, Caroline Stockford, Neil Campbell, Aideen Henry & more thelonelycrowd.org/online-shop-...

The Lonely Crowd / Issue 15 – Online Shop – The Lonely Crowd

Issue 15 will be published on September 7th. UK customers can pre-order now and receive free shipping. A Page of Knots – Vona Groarke / Local Colour – Tim MacGabhann / Three Poems – P. C. Evans / A Qu...

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The Lonely Crowd@thelonelycrowd.bsky.social · 2w ago

Issue 15 of The Lonely Crowd will be published on September 7th. Featuring new work from @elfodongo.bsky.social @pcevans.bsky.social @eleanorhooker.bsky.social @jonathangibbs.bsky.social @katefeld.bsky.social @tomvowler.bsky.social @bentufnell.bsky.social & more thelonelycrowd.org/online-shop-...

The Lonely Crowd / Issue 15 – Online Shop – The Lonely Crowd

Issue 15 will be published on September 7th. UK customers can pre-order now and receive free shipping. A Page of Knots – Vona Groarke / Local Colour – Tim MacGabhann / Three Poems – P. C. Evans / A Qu...

thelonelycrowd.org

The Lonely Crowd@thelonelycrowd.bsky.social · 2w ago

Issue 15 of The Lonely Crowd will be published on September 7th. Featuring new work from Vona Groarke, Alison Moore, Jacob Polley, Richard Milward @nualaoconnor.bsky.social @sarahdavywrites.bsky.social @janefraserwriter.bsky.social @ruthmckee.bsky.social @naomikruger.bsky.social & more

The Lonely Crowd / Issue 15 – Online Shop – The Lonely Crowd

Issue 15 will be published on September 7th. UK customers can pre-order now and receive free shipping. A Page of Knots – Vona Groarke / Local Colour – Tim MacGabhann / Three Poems – P. C. Evans / A Qu...

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The Lonely Crowd@thelonelycrowd.bsky.social · 3w ago

‘The participant seemed alone now and, I sensed, having escaped the exchanges of fire, found himself in a village of some kind, the centre of which was made up of a series of mud-huts…’ Don’t miss @tomvowler.bsky.social’s powerful #shortstoryofthemonth thelonelycrowd.org/2026/07/12/s...

Short Story of the Month, July: ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ by Tom Vowler

Letter from Dr Albert Hofmann to Ernst Jünger Bottmingen, Switzerland – 16th September 1943   My dear Herr Jünger, I recently read your novel Heliopolis and as ever your writing goes be…

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Mike Fox@polyscribe70.bsky.social · 3w ago

Please take time to read this luminous story by @tomvowler.bsky.social. How open-mindedness, and the willingness to innovate, can lead to healing and the evolution of human understanding.

The Lonely Crowd@thelonelycrowd.bsky.social · 3w ago

‘The participant seemed alone now and, I sensed, having escaped the exchanges of fire, found himself in a village of some kind, the centre of which was made up of a series of mud-huts…’ Don’t miss @tomvowler.bsky.social’s powerful #shortstoryofthemonth thelonelycrowd.org/2026/07/12/s...

The Lonely Crowd@thelonelycrowd.bsky.social · 3w ago

‘The participant seemed alone now and, I sensed, having escaped the exchanges of fire, found himself in a village of some kind, the centre of which was made up of a series of mud-huts…’ Don’t miss @tomvowler.bsky.social’s powerful #shortstoryofthemonth thelonelycrowd.org/2026/07/12/s...

Short Story of the Month, July: ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ by Tom Vowler

Letter from Dr Albert Hofmann to Ernst Jünger Bottmingen, Switzerland – 16th September 1943   My dear Herr Jünger, I recently read your novel Heliopolis and as ever your writing goes be…

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The Lonely Crowd@thelonelycrowd.bsky.social · 4w ago

Our #shortstoryofthemonth for July is by the brilliant @tomvowler.bsky.social. Don’t miss ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’: thelonelycrowd.org/2026/07/12/s...

Short Story of the Month, July: ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ by Tom Vowler

Letter from Dr Albert Hofmann to Ernst Jünger Bottmingen, Switzerland – 16th September 1943   My dear Herr Jünger, I recently read your novel Heliopolis and as ever your writing goes be…

thelonelycrowd.org

The Lonely Crowd@thelonelycrowd.bsky.social · 4w ago

Our #shortstoryofthemonth for July is by the brilliant @tomvowler.bsky.social. Don’t miss ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’: thelonelycrowd.org/2026/07/12/s...

Short Story of the Month, July: ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ by Tom Vowler

Letter from Dr Albert Hofmann to Ernst Jünger Bottmingen, Switzerland – 16th September 1943   My dear Herr Jünger, I recently read your novel Heliopolis and as ever your writing goes be…

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The Lonely Crowd@thelonelycrowd.bsky.social · last mo.

‘These verses are typical for me in that they are clearly inspired by the natural world. I live with the deep, deep green of Somerset all around our house, every window lets in bleats, chirps, neighs, furry moths (hence the poem ‘Dark Bordered’).’ thelonelycrowd.org/2026/06/27/p...

Poet of the Month Essay, June / Melanie Marshall

My poems showcased here in this inspiring place are both typical, and, of what I write. I penned poetry prolifically from about the age of nine until my early twenties and then suddenly, once accep…

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The Lonely Crowd@thelonelycrowd.bsky.social · last mo.

‘Exeunt’ by Melanie Marshall ‘Day One From nowhere a displaced, Cloven, braced in the shallows Marmite eyes unanswered He vaults over the ford Interrupted…’ thelonelycrowd.org/2026/06/27/e...

‘Exeunt’ by Melanie Marshall

Day One From nowhere a displaced, Cloven, braced in the shallows Marmite eyes unanswered He vaults over the ford Interrupted. Day Three A puppet under the hedge Tiny antlers once sculpted of bone, …

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The Lonely Crowd@thelonelycrowd.bsky.social · last mo.

‘These verses are typical for me in that they are clearly inspired by the natural world. I live with the deep, deep green of Somerset all around our house, every window lets in bleats, chirps, neighs, furry moths (hence the poem ‘Dark Bordered’).’ thelonelycrowd.org/2026/06/27/p...

Poet of the Month Essay, June / Melanie Marshall

My poems showcased here in this inspiring place are both typical, and, of what I write. I penned poetry prolifically from about the age of nine until my early twenties and then suddenly, once accep…

thelonelycrowd.org

The Lonely Crowd@thelonelycrowd.bsky.social · last mo.

‘Exeunt’ by Melanie Marshall ‘Day One From nowhere a displaced, Cloven, braced in the shallows Marmite eyes unanswered He vaults over the ford Interrupted…’ thelonelycrowd.org/2026/06/27/e...

‘Exeunt’ by Melanie Marshall

Day One From nowhere a displaced, Cloven, braced in the shallows Marmite eyes unanswered He vaults over the ford Interrupted. Day Three A puppet under the hedge Tiny antlers once sculpted of bone, …

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The Lonely Crowd@thelonelycrowd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

‘It was devastatingly straightforward: Her youngest child Jamie had been beside her at the fairground & then he wasn’t. Over his almost 4 years on the planet, they had rarely been more than the length of his shadow apart, & now he was nowhere...’ thelonelycrowd.org/2026/06/14/s...

Short Story of the Month, June: ‘The Brutality of Fairy Tales’ by Conor Griffin

Between the waves of panic and shock, some questions arose that could not be answered: How did it happen? How could she not have immediately noticed his absence? How would they ever fucking get thr…

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The Lonely Crowd@thelonelycrowd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

‘It was devastatingly straightforward: Her youngest child Jamie had been beside her at the fairground & then he wasn’t. Over his almost 4 years on the planet, they had rarely been more than the length of his shadow apart, & now he was nowhere...’ thelonelycrowd.org/2026/06/14/s...

Short Story of the Month, June: ‘The Brutality of Fairy Tales’ by Conor Griffin

Between the waves of panic and shock, some questions arose that could not be answered: How did it happen? How could she not have immediately noticed his absence? How would they ever fucking get thr…

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The Lonely Crowd@thelonelycrowd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For June, we are delighted to publish a new piece, ‘The Brutality of Fairy Tales’ by Conor Griffin. thelonelycrowd.org/2026/06/14/s...

Short Story of the Month, June: ‘The Brutality of Fairy Tales’ by Conor Griffin

Between the waves of panic and shock, some questions arose that could not be answered: How did it happen? How could she not have immediately noticed his absence? How would they ever fucking get thr…

thelonelycrowd.org

The Lonely Crowd@thelonelycrowd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For June, we are delighted to publish a new piece, ‘The Brutality of Fairy Tales’ by Conor Griffin. thelonelycrowd.org/2026/06/14/s...

Short Story of the Month, June: ‘The Brutality of Fairy Tales’ by Conor Griffin

Between the waves of panic and shock, some questions arose that could not be answered: How did it happen? How could she not have immediately noticed his absence? How would they ever fucking get thr…

thelonelycrowd.org