COVID: Lockdown Stories (2020-2021)
My Covid Year
by Denise Monroe – an autobiographical piece My husband came home from Italy in February 2020. He had been staying with his sister and her husband, a retired Italian doctor who had worked in Sierra Leone during the Ebola outbreak of 2014. He knew a thing or two about epidemics and what they could become. … continue reading »
Read MoreInvisible London (2017-2019)
Lost & Found, for Rosie Joyce
From the life of Rosie Joyce By Nacima Khan — We met on a boat, Rosie and I. Affectionately named the ‘River Princess’, the boat was charming yet weather-beaten and floated in the waters of Cody Dock, a less frequented and quiet part of East London. The boat smelled damp; the ghosts of past legendary… continue reading »
Read MoreStories Against Loneliness (2016)
Butterfly Effect, by Nicola Peard
The one thing about change is that you rarely see it coming. — Most of the time, it’s already here. First Beat – Sixteen Years Old When I found the first patch – just behind my right ear, concealed by the hair that would be there for a while yet – I… continue reading »
Read MoreEastLife (2014-2015)
Poppies, Communism and Stitches, by Jo Lazar
1989. I wasn’t even a plan then. I was all the ovules a woman aged thirty-four had bled along with her uterus lining month after month. I was a shadow of a thought of an idea of an impossibility. I was my father’s greatest wish and hardest achievement. He-Who-Was-Executed-On-Christmas-Day, Nicolae Ceausescu, the half illiterate dictator,… continue reading »
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