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POWER OUTAGE
During a power outage, two best friends make a memory.
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PAPER DOLLS
A group of children walk onto thin ice ... -
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NEW YORK FAIRYTALE
A tourist has a one-night-stand in Central Park
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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO WANG
A tourist in China causes difficulties for a local man. ... -
LETTER TO MY NEWBORN SON
On the responsibility of having brought a newborn into today’s world. ... -
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WALK LIKE A MAN
After an exhausting week of being a woman I realised that growing up female means we never walk without fear. ... -
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DODGY TICKER
A frank and open treatment of mental health. ... -
MY MOTHER’S FINGERS
A curt melding of ancestral stories and present experiences. ... -
Shelter in Place
An artful expression of vulnerability versus violence during isolation. ... -
Mental Health Month: Awareness Essay on Writing
An urgent and essential essay on bearing up your mental health, shortcomings and all. ... -
Blunder Construction
I work like this… One foot in and one foot out. ... -
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The Ferlinghetti On The Left Shoulder
The intersectionality of art as freedom where religion can trap. ... -
TWICE STOLEN
She didn’t like tea. She wasn’t even sure why she was drinking the murky brew. Except maybe, that it had become their evening custom. ... -
Rhoda
When I met Rhoda, every bell inside off me started ringing. ... -
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How fantasy literature and media can benefit our mental health
What if fantasy literature and media can be beneficial for our mental health, alongside being a huge amount of fun? ... -
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What Grows in Kangan? Planting the Paracosm in Anthills of the Savannah
Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah is a giant of the late eighties – nominated for the 1987 Booker Prize, it is a combination of ... -
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The Healthy Desire For Discomfort
I dream of discomfort. For a year now I have lived a hazy half-life of wool and fleece and sweatpants. ... -
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A “Brilliant Sun”, a “Trap of Bones” – Visions of Pakistan in Moniza Alvi’s -The Country at My Shoulder.
Although it would take me a shameful ten years to realise it, in evoking that disjunct, Alvi’s Presents from My Aunts in Pakistan is a ... -
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The Art of Black Humour
FROM OUR ARCHIVES: It seems a fitting time to declare that there is nothing out there as potent as black comedy to capture the absurdity ... -
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Just Noise – The Barbarian Thrill of Noise in Music
FROM OUR ARCHIVES: “We believed that music is nothing but organized noise. You can take anything—street sounds, us talking, whatever you want—and make it music ...