COVID: Lockdown Stories (2020-2021)
Things That Miles Cannot Touch
for Miles Davis, by Erica Masserano The part of himself that looked at the world like a child, because when you are a child, you do not see the world as you do now When you’re little you’re just like a sponge The fence that separates Harry Roberts nursery from Ben Jonson primary school, the… continue reading »
Read MoreInvisible London (2017-2019)
Stephen’s History Book, for Steve Brooks
From the life of Steve Brooks By Zach Ekpe — 1880 My family were Sephardi Jews from Portugal. That would be my grandfather, his father and his grandfather, they were in a pogrom – a pogrom is where the state turns against part of its inhabitants and expels them. They took their money and their… 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)
Thus Spoke the Songs of Love, by Naida Redgrave
Yesterday “I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.” ―Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra I woke up to a beautiful spring afternoon. Birds chirped in the distance and the house felt still and empty. Memories… continue reading »
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