On a Sunday, I sent an 800-word excerpt to my virtual writing group. The piece was about my partner, Erica – a love letter to her, really, about the ways ...
A personal memoir about a young woman who finds herself depressed at a hen party. Continue Reading High Priestesses
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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. ...
“…I called again and was rerouted five times until I was back to the same operator who initially took the call. In New Jersey, where I grew up, we call ...
You’ve bought masks, hand sanitizer. Leave the house only for essentials, they say. Flatten the curve. You should buy an oxygen monitor, you think. Your mother had one. ...
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 ...
The streets are very quiet these days so the whoop whoop staccato punctuation of ambulance sirens every 5 to 10 minutes is rattling. Continue Reading Covid Days, Chocolate ...
Here’s What I miss: Crowds. Big ones… everyone’s sweet with sweat and booze, one mass of hoots and hollers, and you’re reminded of what it’s like to be part of ...
I’m not sure what I want out of dating and my inner feminist is nervous. Continue Reading Feminist dating for women in their forties
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This is a story about love, but it is also about making choices. Savičević’s disjointed narrative is, at times, challenging, but it becomes evident that this is exactly the author’s ...
All it takes is a quick stroll around central London to demonstrate that its history is etched in stone. Continue Reading Rock of Ages
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Translated by Marissa Skeels. My nights are long. A fixed-point camera facing the sea silently captures large, rolling waves. White spray blends with yellow light and smoothly vanishes. Relayed from ...
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 ...
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, ...
Let any number of women be represented as points in space-time and you will always be able to find a surface that connects them. Continue Reading Alternative Geometries
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The sun should never rise for me again. I am a worthless piece of dung whose ambition is not to live, but to wither away. I could have served, but ...
“We see what happens when you persecute people. They fold into themselves…”
—Mahershala Ali, 2017 SAG Awards Acceptance Speech Continue Reading One Day I’ll Ask the President A ...
A personal memoir about growing up in ’80s London as the child of a Greek Cypriot immigrant. It encapsulates the dichotomy between an identity that forced upon the author, and ...
The cherry trees shed their electric-pink cherry blossoms this time of year and they collect absolutely everywhere, clogging up the drains and heaped high and dense against every corner and ...
As James unlocked his door to reveal the inside of his apartment, I considered making up some excuse to leave, but when the door opened, I followed him inside. ...
