Category: youth

• Look With Heaven’s Eyes

  

  Body Dysmorphia!

  crushball

  February 17, 2023

  acceptance, creative non fiction, god, hope, lessons, non-fiction, personalanechdote, reflection, unfiltered, untoldstories, youth

  creativenonfiction, god, nonfiction, reflection

• The Low, Malicious Hum

  

  A short story about my childhood fear of flies

  crushball

  July 29, 2022

  family, fiction, lessons, personalanechdote, short story, youth

  childhood, children, daughters, fiction, mothers, parenthood, personalanechdote, shortstories

• Black Tragedy: One Familiar Story of Blackness

  

  His story isn’t unique to him. The details may be, but the overall portrait of his circumstances lend themselves to the narratives of black people murdered by the streets all over.

  crushball

  July 10, 2021

  black, blackbritain, blackness, guncrime, institutionalracism, knifecrime, non-fiction, Racism, youth

  blackbritain, institutionalracism, knifecrime, nonfiction, Racism, reflection, youth

• Come Out Swinging: Boxing saves

  

  A long read on boxing’s saviour role in the lives of London’s young boys from inside a local youth boxing club, written months before the world lost its head

  crushball

  June 5, 2021

  black, blackbritain, blackness, boxing, carshalton, governmentcuts, guncrime, institutionalracism, journalism, knifecrime, London, non-fiction, Racism, sport, untoldstories, values, youth

  black, blackbritain, blackness, boxing, features, governmentcuts, guncrime, institutionalracism, journalism, knifecrime, London, nonfiction, Racism, untoldstories, values, youth