“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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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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“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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“Peter imagined himself and the man lying next to each other, the man’s tanned, tentacled leg wrapping around his own.”
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Cover Art by Mario Loprete
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Editor’s Letter by Eric Akoto
Notes from a reader M. M. De ...
we (and by we I mean Claire (the woman I swore (vow (we still vow, we still pledge ourselves, like honourable (‘honour you’, that’s a wedding vow (there’s that word ...
On sunny afternoons, I go out to the street to eat tar.
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Art always wakes up before dawn on festival day. Has done for seventeen years and this year is no different.
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November 5th, 2020, eleven weeks before the end of his term, of a bullet wound to the head fired as he addressed a crowd of supporters. ...
I am a rare bird. Almost extinct. There is no one to follow me and inherit my beliefs and practice.
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An account of three lives spurred on by expression, creation and envy.
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“Quick, look up at the ceiling, look up, look up,” before she even said Welcome New Lesbians or Happy New Year. So Grace and Patti Ann looked up. What the ...
Since Mrs. Grey did assess Ms. Yang’s stenography skills as “redundant and useless in the modern age”, Ms. Yang has resolved henceforth to use these skills as her only means ...
Poetry emerges; authorial identity becomes confused, drifts.
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Retreating into the madness..
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A liberating evening sets the girls free as the boundaries begin to blur...
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Nigerian writer Innocent Ilo’s “When You (Don’t) Want to Die” begins as a story about a little girl longing for death, but becomes something more magical
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A man plays a creepier, lonelier private game on the London Underground.
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