How can children make sense of change? Recalling hot summers and spam salads, Kim reflects on childhood memories. Continue Reading Monsters and Angels
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Shiori Ito’s memoir Black Box reviewed. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: BLACK BOX
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There comes a point in your grown-up life when you realise that your parents are just people, human beings like anybody else. Continue Reading Book Review: Astral ...
Exploring grief and its devestating ripple effect. Continue Reading HOW I KILLED MY SISTER : CONFESSION OF A CHILD OF GOD
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On the estate where I grew up there was a woman who delivered the free newspaper. She had stubble all over her chin and on the rolls of neck beneath. ...
I was reminded of my own difference at the start of every school day, which began with An rolla. Continue Reading Say Something Japanesey
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A commentary on the strange pets we keep! Continue Reading A Strange Companion
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In March 2020, the world drew to a halt. An unprecedented stasis. Many grasped for metaphors. Continue Reading Writing in an Atmosphere of Glass
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Facing eviction from his tiny mouse-ridden damp house, a young man watches his girlfriend struggle to keep up with her fellow students via remote learning, while pondering how to dispose ...
An introspective look at the world in light of our new reality. Continue Reading The Enemy Within
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This was the time when we were still shy and new to budding bodies, excited at the prospect of being with the other sex, but not wanting to show it ...
Can’t remember when a week last felt like a month, a month like the distant past. Continue Reading Love in the Time of Corona: Covid-19 Diaries
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An autobiographical essay, that moves between past and present, told by a young woman who describes the aftermath of the 29th of November 2019 stabbing of two people at a ...
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 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 ...
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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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, ...
A familiar shame sidles into the room as I grasp at my meagre store of Kannada and Tulu. My grandmother and I muddle our way through a multilingual conversation that’s ...