School Reunion
Note: the form of this piece was inspired by Susan Sontag’s short story The Way We Live Now. Sontag’s text is available to read online at...
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Owen Thomas Webb
Oct 23, 20238 min
That’s the Price of Living
That’s the Price of Living MILTON is trying to relax in his living room. Wearing his brown dressing gown, slippers and stripey night cap,...
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Panashe Ndou
Jul 14, 20232 min
In Benjamin’s Room
I spent the night in Benjamin's room. I didn't want to, or rather I didn't intend to. Even though I was alone it felt like he was there,...
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Pablo Lacalle Castillo
Jun 5, 202315 min
New Babylon
Content Warning: Racist language It was Tuesday on a sluggish June afternoon in 1956, and Samuel Cohn sat and smoked a cigarette, waiting...
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Owen Thomas Webb
Apr 14, 20234 min
The Four Ages
The Age of Discord The refugee’s home is my home But it only became my home when the refugee thanked me for it This is the Age of...
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Cristina Rizzo
Mar 31, 20233 min
In the Smoking Area, Bisexual, Long Distance (I)
In the Smoking Area Cristina Rizzo “You ok?” He scares me. His voice is hugged by the cushioned music from inside the club. My ears feel...
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Charlie Barber
Nov 16, 20224 min
Tranquility
Many are those who, straining to be heard above the throbbing dub of the local coffee shop, insist that they work better with music, and...
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Pablo Lacalle Castillo
Nov 6, 20226 min
A Song for Laika
A while ago, in the back of a bar in Madrid, a friend once asked me which, out of all of God’s creatures who ever walked this earth, I...
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