Capital
‘There are a few things we need to eliminate,’ the doctor said. ‘A brain tumour is the first of...
Category: Truth & Lies
Waterlog
I wanted to follow the rain on its meanderings about our land to rejoin the sea, to break out of...
Homesick for Another World
A full short story by Ottessa Moshfegh called Nothing Ever Happens Here
Landmarks
I am wary of the dangers of fetishizing dialect and archaism – all that mollocking and sukebinding...
An Outline Of Intellectual Rubbish
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth. One of the most...
The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the...
Nutshell
But lately, as I track my mother’s shifting relation to her crime, I’ve remembered rumours of a...
Brit(ish)
I realised that I had what Sam did not. Even when it’s quite clear that people around me are...
The Course Of Love
Pronouncing a lover “perfect” can only be a sign that we have failed to understand them. We can claim to have begun to know someone only when they have substantially disappointed us.
French Exit
Malcolm was yet in his suite. He was speaking to Susan on the phone. “Let’s eat food, for lunch,”...
The Etymologicon
Heckling is, or once was, the process of removing the knots from wool. Sheep are notoriously...
Agency
“You the app whisperer.” “They needed something to explain my being with him in...
