Voice is not just about style or a distinctive style, it is inseparable from the writing itself. Continue Reading The Importance of Voice in Writing
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You’ll drive around the roads of your hometown with their quaint names like River and Church, long black streets with a yellow middle pulling you in and spitting you out ...
I don’t remember the kid’s name; the only impression he made on me was his face: scabbed over, crusted with dried blood all across his chin. Continue ...
An artist labours towards truth in her work Continue Reading Regeneration
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I can never remember. When I wake up, I mean. In the dream, I can. It’s always the same one. –From the Archives Continue Reading One Night Stand
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We had, however, not experienced a moment’s error in Japan’s transport schedules – so far. Continue Reading Chasing Sakura: 10. School
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He returned some drops of water from the jug to its source, the creek that ran to the river, and touched each banana tree while looking at the moon. ...
In the dark of night she could hear the distant murmurings of a world beyond, a world that was neither here nor there. Continue Reading Catholic
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“Η καρδιά. Yi kardiá. Heart.”
“Η βάρκα. Yi várka. Boat.”
“Η χώρα. Yi hóra. Country.” Continue Reading How are you fine thank you
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Introduction I Lining up for Nadia Bolz-Weber’s talk at Southwark Cathedral, I’m aware I don’t fit in. A young woman beside me is talking to her mother, describing the time ...
He turns his head and notices the afternoon glare bouncing off the shiny black helmet, the Guardia National that kept looking at him Continue Reading Black Helmet
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The audience is catapulted into a non-narrative time-suspended vortex of loss, death, and nostalgia, mixed up with hilarious absurdity. Continue Reading Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – Bon ...
This revival of Jesus Hopped the A Train directed by Kate Hewitt plunges us in the hell of violence and despair that is a modern day prison. ...
Perestroika meant twenty-three, with two Masters degrees, and still unemployed in Odessa. — From the Archives Continue Reading Caviar
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Chivalry and romance were the driving forces in Acosta’s reimagined ballet production of Don Quixote at the Royal Opera House. Continue Reading Don Quixote at the Royal Opera ...
One vine on its own snaps easily, but the strength of many tied together is enough to carry you over a gorge. That was the mantra I clung to as ...
Watching the bright white van coming into the close like a shout, pulling up with its shouty logo, she feels invaded. Continue Reading Bitter, Horned
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The loss of a lover is met with sorrowful elegance Continue Reading The Naked One
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We first summoned you at your wake and you have haunted us ever since. — From the Archives Continue Reading Peter’s Ghost
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