The thing is, as Kurt Vonnegut writes in his brilliant, bizarre Timequake, is that being alive, essentially, is a ‘crock of shit’. The vast majority …
VeZa: Letter from the Editor
I will be honest with you here reader. Connection? Haven’t always been the biggest fan of it, myself. The face-to-face, meet-space, whether it’s real life …
That’s Amore
On how love is a drug, Kurt Vonnegut, courage baths, and mafia wives.
Ugly, Lovely Town
On Reading Dylan Thomas Away from Home It is summer and I am nine. My father and grandfather have driven me up to the valley. …
HIRAETH: A Letter from the Editor
Location—where we are, where we are going, where we have been—has never been more important to us than in this year. This year of stay-at-home, …
Lizzie Borden’s Mirror
Have you ever axed someone? To death or just to grievous injury. (There is no real way to axe someone lightly. It is either final …
The English Word
I am not the night, girlIt is not then when I comeA scattered spurt of silver starsThe silent sex of ship and shoreWhere rich wood …
My Grandfather’s Shirt
Recently, I have become slightly obsessed with reading about Jane Does. Did you know, there is a list, on Wikipedia, of every unidentified murder victim …
My Grandfather’s Shirt
Caitlin Whiteley describes the true depth of the loss that comes with death, and the way time influences it.
Reflections on @standrewssurvivors
‘If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one’-Stanley Tucci as lawyer Mitch Garabedian in Spotlight (Tom McCarthy, …