ALT Cover of Propel Issue 4 with an issue card overlaid on a grainy black and grey image of a projectile, saying March 2023 Issue Four Ed. Jack Underwood, and contributors listed: Iona Roisin, Miruna Fulgeanu, Kayla Marie Troy, Peter Thickett, James Murphy, Madeleine Kruhly, Kari Pindoria, Martha Aroha Челoк, Lucie Richter-Mahr, Iulia DAvid, Richard O'Brien, Memoona Zahid, Cia, Rebecca McCutcheon, Alia Kobuszko, Rachel Curzon, Eve Ellis, Mariam Varsimashvilli, Jared Collins, Alex MacDonald

ALT OK, you’re a guilty pig, but walk down Broadway Market with a £9 drink in a plastic cup. Forget your dad working raw, the insides of hospitals, it’s fine, you’re one of these people now. Just drift down the market, you deserve the air-pockety bread. Admit it, you’re taken in, you are impossible with delight, with the scent of coffee bean. You admire floor-to-ceiling windows, gaze at the drowsy girl in high-waisted trousers, a rust shirt, slim wrists. Give up trying to hate it, you’re a rotten peach, aren’t you, clinging to its stone.

ALT This isn’t about how you couldn’t afford to save your brother’s life, Dad’s roll-out bed. Brush the crumbs from your cashmere girl, what’s the point of feeling bad all the time? Get soaked with it, have the salted butter, the altar. You are present, return to the breath, to the podcast. You will birth babies so quick you’ll shock the midwife. You can be tight as a drum with the right classes, a privately-educated husband who will grill meat. You can have the small violet cakes, the quiet terror of the high-rise looming at the bottom of your garden. Cecilia Knapp

ALT Cover of Propel Issue 4 with an issue card overlaid on a grainy black and grey image of a projectile, saying March 2023 Issue Four Ed. Jack Underwood, and contributors listed: Iona Roisin, Miruna Fulgeanu, Kayla Marie Troy, Peter Thickett, James Murphy, Madeleine Kruhly, Kari Pindoria, Martha Aroha Челoк, Lucie Richter-Mahr, Iulia DAvid, Richard O'Brien, Memoona Zahid, Cia, Rebecca McCutcheon, Alia Kobuszko, Rachel Curzon, Eve Ellis, Mariam Varsimashvilli, Jared Collins, Alex MacDonald