Manda is holding together work, motherhood, class inheritance and a mind close to cracking. In “Filia,” care becomes ritual: for children, for guinea pigs, for memory, and for the self ...
A husband clings to a final journey to the place that once made them feel alive, while his wife quietly begins to imagine the world after him.
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On a bus route threaded through memory, design, and stray thought, Simeon Edwards turns ordinary transit into something stranger: a study in urban perception, presence, and drift.
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Attunement
The house came with instructions that she did not read. She assumed they were the usual conditions, the kind dutifully handed out to every new occupant, outlining features she ...
A daughter tends to her mother on a weather-beaten coast, where memory falters but old phrases remain. A restrained, devastating flash about care, inheritance, and the strange intimacy of letting ...
When I was twelve years old, before I knew girls were not allowed to play professional baseball, I would take a tennis ball, throw it hard against the half-finished ...
A bone appears on the doormat. Then another. Then a skull. In Samuel Smith’s sly sci-fi flash, domestic routine gives way to something far stranger — and the family cat ...
A life annotated into being — desire, shame, and the road that refuses to stand still.
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February runs on spectacle — but most of life happens in smaller rooms and smaller gestures. This week’s Tuesday Tales follows what gets carried, what gets remembered, and what gets ...
A childhood near-miss, a plane in the sky, and a charm hidden for survival—then years later, a return to the building where memory lives in the air.
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Dedication in a book about Japanese technology
To my son, who was also made in Japan
Shelf C8. Box 3d
He wears a hat that makes him look like a Smurf, and ...
A mother’s language begins to slip and her son realises the jokes have teeth.
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Inheritance, grief, and the house-as-ghost — staged in two scenes.
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“We were no longer young.” GC Perry sets the violent breakdown of a marriage in the warmth and magnificence of Tuscany’s countryside.
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An old house. Drugs. Danger. One old woman must grapple with her memories and the passage of time in a haunting tale of love, loss, and the echoes of the ...
“The best trick of your twenties is to eschew self-reflection." The witty ups and downs of our twenties and life in the city.
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“What am I to do with this one life? That is all I think about all day long.” The story of a copywriter and the monotony of life.
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N/A Oparah brings us an exploration into mother-daughter relationships, and the way religion and technology play their part.
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“Good cooking takes time and sacrifice; good Pakistani cooking takes much, much more.” An essay on generational differences and Eid.
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Dorothy Lune's flash piece gives voice to a vibrant René Magritte painting, pushing the boundaries between words and visual art.
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