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Craving God / Deserting Divine
A clear-eyed essay on grief, disbelief, and the private myths we build to survive the end.
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Monsters and Angels
How can children make sense of change? Recalling hot summers and spam salads, Kim reflects on childhood memories.
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BOOK REVIEW: BLACK BOX
Shiori Ito’s memoir Black Box reviewed.
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Book Review: Astral Travel by Elizabeth Baines
There comes a point in your grown-up life when you realise that your parents are just people, human beings like anybody else.
HOW I KILLED MY SISTER : CONFESSION OF A CHILD OF GOD
Exploring grief and its devestating ripple effect.
On becoming a border
On the estate where I grew up there was a woman who delivered the free newspaper. She had stubble all over her chin and on the rolls of neck beneath. ...
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Say Something Japanesey
I was reminded of my own difference at the start of every school day, which began with An rolla.
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A Strange Companion
A commentary on the strange pets we keep!
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Writing in an Atmosphere of Glass
In March 2020, the world drew to a halt. An unprecedented stasis. Many grasped for metaphors.
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How Do I Dispose of a Microwave?
Facing eviction from his tiny mouse-ridden damp house, a young man watches his girlfriend struggle to keep up with her fellow students via remote learning, while pondering how to dispose ...
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The Enemy Within
An introspective look at the world in light of our new reality.
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Coal, Socials and Us
This was the time when we were still shy and new to budding bodies, excited at the prospect of being with the other sex, but not wanting to show it ...
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Love in the Time of Corona: Covid-19 Diaries
Can’t remember when a week last felt like a month, a month like the distant past.
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Learning Together
An autobiographical essay, that moves between past and present, told by a young woman who describes the aftermath of the 29th of November 2019 stabbing of two people at a ...
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Beneath the Hawthorn Tree
On the surface all is peaceful. All is tidy and cared for. But there is more here than that you can see. There are things that are hidden.
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Sluts on Saturn
I had an affair with the star’s husband. She was having an affair with the husband of someone who didn’t know. Fortunately for the star, hypocrisy is no more a ...
Feminist dating for women in their forties
I’m not sure what I want out of dating and my inner feminist is nervous.
Amusing Myself in the Still of the Night
Art by Kotaro Satsuki
Translated by Marissa Skeels.
My nights are long.
A fixed-point camera facing the sea silently captures large, rolling waves. White ...
Desire Is Full of Endless Distances
What she could have asked me might have been whether I thought I was good enough to marry someone else, and perhaps our conversation could have yielded something different. I ...
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Why Italians are dancing on balconies during the Covid-19 emergency
The Covid-19 emergency has pushed Italian communities – as well as the rest of the world – to start dancing and singing on balconies. While the victims are tragically increasing, ...