COVID: Lockdown Stories (2020-2021)
Turning
by Lydia Morris – an autobiographical piece Light blusters in at such ferocity when she opens her eyes that she’ll later wonder – once her brain too awakens – how she ever slept through it in the first place. Though perhaps – she’ll reason – it’s simply commonplace now that she’s accustomed to sleeping with… continue reading »
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Surface Shoots & Sucker Roots, for Claire Chatelet
From the life of Claire Chatelet By Naida Redgrave — ‘I’m warning you, I jump from subject to subject. I’ve got a form of dyslexia. I’ll take you somewhere, then I’ll loop back and forth. The problem is, I find it very difficult to find salient points. I view everything as equally interesting and important.’… continue reading »
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Jambo, by Stevie Kilgour
London, November 2016. Allow me to show you the kind of situation that I felt really mattered in my life when I was a young adult. Looking back I now realise how insignificant that and many similar situations were. They were mere inconveniences and in the grand scheme of things – they really didn’t matter…. continue reading »
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Afloat, Ashore, for Charlie Burke
From the life of Charlie Burke By Jo Lazar — “What’s the matter, Charlie?” “I need help, my head’s bursting.” In Barking, in 1946, Charlie’s head was the youngest in his family and it would always be. He got away with everything. To add to his numerous siblings, the community was tightly knit. There were… continue reading »
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