Sitting in the Cricketers pub, I listened as Grandma asked me whether I typically experienced difficulties “passing stools.” She seemed disappointed when I told her, “No, I didn’t.” I was ...
The house I’ve lived in with my family for the past two years is spacious and newly renovated. The comforts are numerous, the company good. But in the spring of ...
Courtesy of the author.
Angela stood in the doorway. Black jeans, nice coat, expensive trainers. I thought she was one of the posh wives with a donation: a Waitrose carrier bag ...
The 21st of February is International Mother Language Day – the most celebrated day worldwide for languages. Grimly, this day also poses a strange paradox – a day that reminds ...
A native Brit living in Berlin experiences Russia.
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Image by Travis Zimmerman from Pixabay
January 2020. We were preparing for a new semester, a doomed semester, but we didn’t know it yet. On the third floor of ...
When one thing changes everything.
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You see yourself as one of the lucky ones.
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Photo by Mattias Ripp
I was lucky. They only took my handbag. Sure, they had to floor me first, because I dared to clutch my possessions.
“Was it at night?” is the ...
Photo by Paola Rizzi
“The more resolutely you plumb the question, ‘Who or what am I?’ – the more unavoidable is the realisation that you are nothing…apart from everything else.”
-Alan W. ...
abecedarian twenty-six letters, each one a compact unit of communication, a twisted riddle, a maze of red tape from well-lit offices; the only means of containing my sorrow now ...
A woman feels watched
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Measure for measure
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On the halves that make us whole
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A woman reflects on the life growing within her
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A daughter weighs her grief
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Walking the Camino, learning the lessons
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On irony running its course as a mode of being
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On rediscovering the humane, intimate photography of David Wise
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A man goes missing on a sea crossing
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