COVID: Lockdown Stories (2020-2021)
Plans Cancelled & Made
for George Freeman, by Ersi Zevgoli Sitting at home watching the telly is not a state of being that comes naturally to George Freeman: “The television bores me stiff,” he tells me. No wonder, then, that when I ask him how lockdown’s been for him on our first call, he tells me that it’s been… continue reading »
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Motherland, for Edwin Rolle
From the life of Edwin Rolle By Sandra Wilson — The hot sun blazed down on the inhabitants of the small island of Dominica. The sea breeze blew very gently every so often to cool them as they went about their daily business. The sky was a bright blue and the sun shone onto the… continue reading »
Read MoreStories Against Loneliness (2016)
Songs for Samuel, by Suzanne Wilson
When I was four years old, we listened to Ska and danced in the living room. Our house, in the middle of our street… We wanted a fixer upper. Why don’t you have a job? Because I spend all day doing up the house for your mother. Mind your feet. Don’t be going around without… continue reading »
Read MoreEastLife (2014-2015)
Memory: Loss, by Naomi Duffree
My mother is eighty-eight. Daytime television and a weekly trip to the hairdresser sums up her week. Confused phone calls. She is not the same person I knew twenty years ago; nor the same person who helped me through my first loss of her dear friend, Bobby, my godmother. And I’m acutely aware she won’t… continue reading »
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