By Peadar Donohue for Unapologetic. The prompt that the ‘The Wake’ takes inspiration from is finding ‘a refuge in your own body’. Regina, the protagonist, is ready to fall into old patterns of negativity with her family following the death of her abusive husband. However, she deeply desires a new start in life and reminds herself to breathe. The acting of consciously being with her breath allows to her let go of negative patterns and helps to set her on the path to embrace a new way of being and living.

Submission for Unapologetic Magazine Blog – Issue 4: What Is a Home?

In this haunting and atmospheric short story, Jeremy returns to The King’s Roost seven years after walking away from the family home that never truly felt like his. Following the death of his estranged parents, he searches the abandoned cottage for closure, only to find unsettling memories, lingering grief, and a growing sense that some places refuse to forget. Exploring themes of belonging, identity, family rejection, and the meaning of home, this poignant story asks whether home is a place, a memory, or something we must create for ourselves.

Leaving Home, a beautiful creative fiction piece by Barbara Bridger as part of Unapologetic Magazine Issue 4 theme ‘What is a Home?’

Fangs is a beautiful poem by Aoife Daly under the Issue 4 of Unapologetic Magazine theme, What is a Home?

Any Place of Peace follows Aisling Lee’s experiences of shame with living with parents in adulthood as part of her submission to Issue 4 of Unapologetic’s theme - What is a Home?

A short piece about making a home in Ireland’s housing crisis by Keely McLavin.

Read a short story about fleeting connections by Conor O’Rourke

Read this blog by Ailbhe Wheatley titled Clay - a heart-breaking piece about building and re-building from abuse as part of our Issue 4 theme ‘What is a home?’

Read this beautiful blog submitted by Aaliyah to our magazine under the Issue 4: What is a Home? theme - Chadeau

This piece features a short story by author Tabitha Bast: Simmer under the Issue 4 Theme of What is a Home?

Welcome to a series of blogs from applicants of Issue 4: What is a Home? whose pieces our editors felt deserved a home on our blog. Not Enough Towels is a powerful piece of short fiction by Catriona Murphy

Welcome to a series of blogs from applicants of Issue 4: What is a Home? whose pieces our editors felt deserved a home on our blog. A Home, Lost is a beautiful poem by Francesca Nathalie Trentadue