Behind our parents’ dresser, my sister finds a photograph along with a bunch of old papers in an orange plastic folder.
“Oh my God,” she says. “It’s Anton.”
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Social distancing, self-isolation, lockdown – are words we now use every day. We want to hear your stories about isolation. It might be self-imposed, it might be enforced, maybe it’s ...
A familiar shame sidles into the room as I grasp at my meagre store of Kannada and Tulu. My grandmother and I muddle our way through a multilingual conversation that’s ...
I keep thinking ahead to when this will be a memory. The worst spring. The spring when the blossoms and the birds were oblivious to our cries.
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I released the tube and let the blood seep into my hand, feeling my skin prick with warmth, awakening the euphoria. Leaving was a lone thing. Porphyria on her own.
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Survival, on the long march into the hostile land crossed by forefathers
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Smile. Everyone would agree that a smiling person is far more approachable than a gloomy and surly one.
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I bet you never thought you’d be hearing this from a dead girl.
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A story of marriage and dental health
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Towards the end of our time in Mozambique, my wife and I had arranged to meet a friend in Metangula, a small strip of a town on the shores of ...
“We see what happens when you persecute people. They fold into themselves…”
—Mahershala Ali, 2017 SAG Awards Acceptance Speech
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The things that happened today; and the merciless voice in the mirror
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Imagine a cat, a stray, that became a woman every sunrise, a fierce black-haired woman named Lucia….
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A personal memoir about growing up in ’80s London as the child of a Greek Cypriot immigrant. It encapsulates the dichotomy between an identity that forced upon the author, and ...
He hadn’t slept in two days and held a human heart between his palms like clay.
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Finding your own “reality” in memories of childhood trauma.
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Best known for her food writing, in Map of Another Town the American writer M.F.K. Fisher takes us on a virtual tour of the French town of Aix-en-Provence.
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They are your earliest memory. Beaked noses. Hair like clouds.
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A young boy loses a part of himself to a wild river.
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A collective of Nigerian teens afrofuturist filmmakers have created The Critics Company a collective making incredible, science fiction movies with camerawork from old, damaged mobile phones and VFX generated ...
