A daughter reflects on her father who died of lung cancer and the recollection of his expulsion from a monastery in Asia, his love of birds and their conversations. ...
As we head into hanky season, this piece feels timely. Of course, we are always heading into, or residing inside of, hanky season, so it’s always timely. Continue ...
A broken family and a peeping tom. Continue Reading Beyond the apricot tree
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An essay about the idea of love. Continue Reading Mondegreen
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We hired him to paint our shopfront. A story about work, and loss. Continue Reading The Man Who Said Snap
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An essay exploring the museum in three parts. First, an account of a childhood experience of a museum, second, through a report about John Nevin, an employee of the V&A ...
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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She’d been lying awake since the crack of dawn, watching the sunrise creeping through the side of her curtains. Continue Reading Burrowing
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Headlights are returning to the streets, drifting across the hall from the living-room door…. Continue Reading Dog in a Frame
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We decided to build the den from all that we could forage from the forest. The one that breathed down the back of our house. Continue Reading You ...
“Hackney Kisses” is a series of graffitied wedding photographs. Continue Reading Hackney Kisses
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World’s Fair, Paris, summer of 1900: we’ve arrived from two dozen countries. Nine hundred ninety-nine women with a single fever dream. Continue Reading The Women of Absolute ...
Amidst this evening’s homeward rush two figures are motionless, one seated on the outer edge of the bridge’s parapet, legs dangling over the sheer drop, the other standing beside him, ...
A commentary on the strange pets we keep! Continue Reading A Strange Companion
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He was angry online, on Twitter and Facebook, and he was angry at work. He was angry at home when he was with his wife and kids, a boy and ...
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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Our journey would be recorded. We could see the headlines already: “Transport for London freezes bicycle hiring after 200 moon-worshippers break lockdown rules in one night.” We Continue ...
He startled awake to find a shadow at his mother’s grave, humming softly as it dug up the soil. Was this a dream? Or was this a djinn taken animal ...
To wash away the blood of bulls and heretics, a trio of Hispano-Bretones draw six tons of bronze from the Casa de Campo. Continue Reading Shaming the ...
My flipping p is less than naught point two times 10 to the minus effing nine! My p. My p Continue Reading Small p
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