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One month of letters
Click to read everything I’ve written in January
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A Heads up
I’m moving to Substack
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Helping Yourself
Details of the coming hiatus and plans for next year
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A Day’s Work
A short story about a recluse and the man who knocks for him
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Glow ups
The allure of physical transformations and the unflattering side of them
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Dead Skin
Stop hoarding people
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Anything With a Beginning and End
On pushing through
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Crime and Punishment
Enduring injustices without wreaking havoc
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Right to Work
Relentless work, enforced breaks and accepting circumstances without constant, driven activity
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Mote and Beam
Worthless criticism
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This is Why We Share
Posting about atrocities is important
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My Doppelgänger
In a vivid dream, the protagonist, Abigail, encounters a doppelganger version of herself, who comes to exist after a mistake Abigail made
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In the Wake of What’s Happened
Painful experiences shape and expand our identities
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We Need a Tree Doctor
Our apple tree is sick, but is it worth the trouble?
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A Week of Thoughts #14
Happiness has declined in women and girls, while dissatisfaction in black women who use Asian-owned beauty supplies has remained about the same
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Mutuals
Routine makes the world small
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Nostos Algos
The problem with nostalgia
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A Week of Thoughts #13
Lucy Letby
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Junk
There’s a lot of rubbish in the Dominican Republic, but there’s a lot of rubbish in London
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We Should Really Get Back to the Dog: Part Four
The dinner party ends in turmoil. Jade, Cleo and the dog encounter the joys of being forgotten. Final chapter.
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We Should Really Get Back to the Dog: Part Three
After some days away, Jade and Cleo dread the dog. All are invited to a dinner party.
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We Should Really Get Back to the Dog: Part two
Jade and Cleo’s Mother sews seeds of doubt into their new livng arrangements, Jade wilfully forgets to buy dog food, again.
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We Should Really Get Back to the Dog: Part one
Sisters Jade and Cleo find a place to live, but their three rich housemates force them to look after an unwanted dog in return. (the revised version of a university project)
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A Noble Cause
Why we no longer die for what we believe in
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False Gods
Giftedness v Greatness
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Wednesday, Thursday, Friday Night
revelatory dreams have shown me how afraid I am
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The Chef and The Chemist
The chef and the chemist try cooking a heart (short story).
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ENCORE: The Things That Keep us Sane
The cure for insanity is insanity
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Treasures in Heaven
Being good is forever
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The Needle Eye
Judgement!
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Curiosity Killed the Cat, Slowly
Yes, artificial intelligence will kill us all, in a leisurely manner.
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BIG ABIGAIL
When I was a child, a 25-year-old me would visit my dreams. (Short story)
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Self-preservation
I chickened out of climbing Dunns river and noted that I’m going to live for a long time, but to what avail?
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ENCORE: ‘The Low, Malicious Hum
A short story about my childhood fear of flies
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A Week of Thoughts #12
Attempted murder in the US, murder in the UK.
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I Have My Serious Face On
Destiny stole my smile
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Memories and How to Use Them
Every memory is as important as the day you learnt to walk
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The Beginnings of People and Things
The Guardian’s slave ties, and our capacity for living beyond the present
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On Forgiveness
I had a huge backlog so it took me three days.
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All the World is Not a Stage
It turns out, as per, I was overcomplicating the issue
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Gary Lineker, Small Boats
I only have one question
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All the World’s a Stage
When, or can life ever cease to be a performance?
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A Week of Thoughts #11
Pleasant travels, and ‘creepy’, ‘entitled’ handwritten letters.
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ENCORE: EU-ROPE-ING while Black: one story
I’m somewhere in Europe this week, let’s hope it goes far better than it did two years ago.
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Look With Heaven’s Eyes
Body Dysmorphia!
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One Big Hand
Laura Winham died by falling through the cracks
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ENCORE: The Evolution of a January
I wrote this in January of last year, here it is again for its relevance.
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Too Much of a Bad Thing?
I am forcing myself to engage with people I do not like.
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A Week of Thoughts #10
Dating/ideals, delusional self-confidence
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The Paradox of Internet Personalities
There’s no way to know whether my favourite online people are worthy of my imaginary friendship.
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Stories from the 2022
2022 was yet another year of realising things, come with.
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Doorless Homes: Finale
My Christmas gift to you: the final part of Doorless homes.
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A Week of Thoughts #9
There is something tiring, terrifying about the frequency of my ‘work dreams’.
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A Week of Thoughts #8
We’re in the first circle of hell- the limbo end-of-year period, and I’m reflecting on some things that have resuscitated me throughout the year.
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A Week of Thoughts #7
I had the flu and I nearly ruined my life. Christianity is now a minority faith in England and Wales.
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Doorless Homes: Part two
A dystopian short story about the presence of mysterious government-owned homes that disappear people in a future where London has broken down: Part 2 of 3.
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Day by Day…
When there’s nothing really to say, you write a diary entry about being weird for profit, and newly empty rooms.
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Answer my Question: What Makes a Human Being?
Why are only some people allowed to feel grief, anger and frustration with a fullness? Why are people born before the 20th century terrifying?
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Doorless Homes: Part one
A dystopian short story about the presence of mysterious government-owned homes that disappear people in a future where London has broken down: Part 1 of 3.
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ENCORE: ‘Don’t Ask Me How She’s Doing: The Story of Grandma, Dementia and The House of Seven.’
Please take this republication of my very first blogpost: “Having Dementia in the house carries with it an onslaught of inside jokes.”
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A Week of Thoughts #6
Why people who don’t read read on Sundays, the importance of personal style evolution, and the spectacle of grief
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The Things That Keep us Sane
The cure for insanity is insanity
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Turkish Eggs
My first solo trip means there’s no one to ride out my holiday-hangover with
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A Week of Thoughts #5
My grandma keeps changing, I am reading a physical book because it is an important one, and I can’t hate the queen
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Today’s missing blogpost
This Friday’s blogpost is missing because I have been on holiday
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Restlessness is Murder
Do you have a constant bone to pick with the present? I do.
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The Gulf: Britain’s Missing Persons Crisis
Long feature on Britain’s missing persons crisis: June 2019
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“Attack Her in the Dead Of Night.”
I had sleep paralysis
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Sometimes We Don’t Want to Understand
Sometimes we purposely act like we don’t know what people are trying to say
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A Week Of Thoughts #4
Wagatha Christie, Sheila Seleoane.
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The Low, Malicious Hum
A short story about my childhood fear of flies
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When People Hate You, When You Hate People
Paranoia, misjudgement, jealousy, delusion, self-hatred, compulsion. Consider those things as inborn parts of yourself.
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A week of thoughts #3
Google is creating & selling souls, small hearts in British government, and Sri Lankan satisfaction
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How to Feel Like Yourself
No, you have never felt like yourself before.
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June: Sausage rolls, Suicide, Suicidal Plants.
Not reporting a theft could save a life, my mental health is no longer killing my plants.
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Everyone’s a Critic: The Careless Commentator
If Drake and I and you and that guy over there were all releasing an equal amount of content, we’d all be a little kinder.
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A week of thoughts #2
Strangers in the house and Gym culture (and clutching for straws)
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Being Tired Can Change Everything
Youtube, good exhaustion, child Q, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe/Annosheh Ashoori
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The Evolution of a January
Wailing about the self-destructive waterlogged first month of the year, and learning how to escape it
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Stories from the 2021
I’m bloody tired
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A week of thoughts #1
It feels awkward, suspicious to be someone of few opinions.
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I’m rebranding Crush-ball
Ever so slightly so that it barely matters
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Don’t forget…
My Grandma has Dementia, but somehow that’s done nothing for my own memory.
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Black People are Real People
A fully alive, fully outstretched black person taking up as much space as they need is the most frightening black person, so be scary.
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EU-ROPE-ING while Black: one story
They just watched us get darker and darker, welcoming in the deeper glow, disgusted. But what could they do?
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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.
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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