J. R. Lowe

Joined January 2021

100 stories

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By day, I'm a PhD student, by night.... I'm still a PhD student, but sometimes I procrastinate by writing on Vocal. Based in Australia.

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Comforter
Smells dusty, feels like your hug - but I don’t want to wash it now you’re gone.
By J. R. Lowe21 days ago in Poets
Moth Boy . Honorable Mention in Lantern Light Challenge.
I laughed when you brought it home stuck it next to the sofa and sat for hours marvelling at the way its glow mellowed the room around us.
By J. R. Lowe3 months ago in Poets
My Hometown Has an Insatiable Appetite. Winner in The Road Drops Here Challenge. Top Story - September 2025.
Every year I stare it down perched on the tip of its tar tongue that snakes across the earth beneath my tyres. It's eaten entire generations
By J. R. Lowe4 months ago in Poets
mellow. Runner-Up in Love in 50 Words Challenge.
we take off our coats here because there's no cold nor judgement to make us cover up the tender parts so we talk about nothing
By J. R. Lowe11 months ago in Poets
The time I lost my yellow balloon
Felicity hues sailed skyward, and years later I still see it in the clouds.
By J. R. Loweabout a year ago in Poets
Sitting on the kitchen floor at 2:37AM with my overripe bananas. Top Story - September 2024.
So here we are again, wedged In between our problems and the refrigerator. Like that crowded bowl of forgotten fruit:
By J. R. Loweabout a year ago in Poets
Mementos. Runner-up in L*pogram Challenge. Top Story - August 2024. Content Warning.
She had always been the type of person to lose stuff. House keys, sunglasses, purses - none were ever safe from sudden, often permanent, departures.
By J. R. Loweabout a year ago in Fiction
Rivers. Runner-up in Breakup Nonet Challenge. Top Story - July 2024.
veins ran hot across the riverbed drinking in the rain, flowing, we surrendered to confluence until time made us a distributary
By J. R. Loweabout a year ago in Poets
My Emotional Support Dinosaur. Top Story - May 2024.
I bring it with me always Everywhere I go To work, to shops, to parties, Because it takes away my woe. I scarcely need to feed it,
By J. R. Lowe2 years ago in Poets
Cigarettes for breakfast. Top Story - January 2024.
All you have for breakfast are cigarettes because there's a weight on your chest that can't be lifted, supressing your appetite. And your heart
By J. R. Lowe2 years ago in Poets
Write more, think less, fire my editor. Top Story - January 2024.
It's funny to think that the first article I ever wrote on Vocal was about setting goals and New Year's resolutions, and here I am, 3 years and 108 stories later, writing one again. That first article, as much as I'd genuinely liked it when it was first published, is garbage. I'd rather read the instruction manual for my lawnmower, cover to cover and in all of the languages, than read that piece again.
By J. R. Lowe2 years ago in Writers
Vocal Memes for Established Creators (Part V). Top Story - June 2023.
How on earth are we up to Part V already? Time flies when you're making memes, I guess. It's been over two years since the first Vocal Memes for Established Creators article was published, and to-date it's still my most read Vocal story of all time, although I'm determined to beat that record this year with something new.
By J. R. Lowe3 years ago in Humor