Cassandra Moss

Cassandra Moss was born in Manchester. She studied English with Film at King's College, London and subsequently worked in the film industry for Sister Films, Working Title, and Vertigo. Since 2009, she's been an ESL teacher. After moving to Ireland, she recently completed an MPhil in Linguistics at Trinity College, Dublin. She now lives and writes by the sea. Her writing has been published in Succour, 3am Magazine, Cricket Online Review, Squawk Back, And/Or, The Passage Between, Posit, Underwood Press, Sunspot Lit, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, KAIROS Literary Magazine, The Bangalore Review and is forthcoming in Drunk Monkeys, Interpret Magazine, and New York Quarterly.

“Swain’s Lane” and “Joyride”

Some time ago I was like an open palm held out for a reading,
all its lines criss-crossing
and indicating one determined future or another.

I only remember my waking dreams from then,
as if sleep was too close to death
to access the underlayers of my mind