Nasalized vowels. Rolled r’s. They seemed to widen the distance between me and my family. I wanted to go home. Continue Reading Mourning is the Sight of a ...
Both are meant to protect us, but at what cost? Continue Reading Thimble, Thimble, Let’s Be Quick
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Haven’t you heard of concealer for those dark circles, and by God, what a miracle that men will even speak to you. “I bet they like your bit of crazy, ...
Yet now I am here, in this room with metal tables. To make the messiness of bodies easier to clean up Continue Reading To Die Under a Great ...
I remember telling him three times…Does it still matter? Does it still count? Continue Reading Why I Didn’t Report
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When he and I weren’t tangled in his sheets upstairs, his tall, lanky body wrapped around mine, he was reading treatises on physics to me, and poetry, by candlelight in ...
Is that what love is, a thought that your mind made up with its chemicals and its hokum and its voodoo magic? Continue Reading Cerulean
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I always come back. Continue Reading Needle-Junkie Debt
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“You’re. A. C**t.”
I just laughed.
This was 1994, at The Venue in New Cross.
Ed Borrie, the lead singer of S*M*A*S*H, leaned forward during some… song, can’t remember which but it was ...
I left him. If you ask me why, I couldn’t tell you. It was not one thing, it was many. Perhaps in the end it was the question of what I loved ...
It was All Hallows’ Eve in Dublin. Fireworks, set off at random intervals by drunkards and juvenile delinquents, were exploding all over town, causing general mayhem and a number of ...
unless you believe that belief in evolution is an innate phenotype arising from a single or cluster of genes that can be selected for—if this were the case, then in ...
When I’ve walked away from all the images of massacres and witches, bandits and clashing armies and lunatics, and when the pictures of kings and gods have faded away, the ...
If the great barometer of public opinion Trip Advisor is to be believed then Ha Long Bay is an enigma, both a glorious wonder of the world and a dangerous ...
But in Cuba, Che will never age, not as long as the myth is perpetuated. Continue Reading Mything Cuba
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You are more than your shoes. So is she. Which means you’re similar, which means you’re basic. Continue Reading Back to Basic
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Samuel Nello on the secrets of these most special of places. Continue Reading At My Local Library
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For me, the first warning signs surfaced in late 2012. A few months before, I had begun dating a self-confessed gym rat. Being a little softer around the edges than ...
Although I had never considered it as anything other than a place to sleep or have sex, when I separated from my wife I not only entered into an intimate ...
Bowie’s death brought with it an outpouring of grief across the world with millions of fans mourning the loss of their rock idol. I wasn’t a huge fan. Arguably his ...
