Sarah Crowder’s lists; all the men I ever loved who were killed by cars
This is a list of men I’ve loved that have been killed by cars. I’m no Maggie O’Connell by a long stretch but it has become somewhat of a recurring theme in my life, shout out to all the other significant men in my life who also got run over but...
read moreInside the head of…Sophie Ioannou
Interview with one of Gut Feelings co-founders. 1. Do you actively do anything to keep your brain healthy, and if so what? Reading, travelling, constantly asking questions, being on my own. 2. What or who mentally stimulates your growth the most? Travelling and...
read moreInside the head of….Sarah Crowder
Interview with a Gut Feelings co-founder. 1. Do you actively do anything to keep your brain healthy, and if so what? Yes. I do a lot of crosswords. I also read and try to hang out with people who are smarter than me and will make my mind stretch...
read moreObscure Sorrows: Monachopsis
Monachopsis n. the subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place, as maladapted to your surroundings as a seal on a beach – lumbering, clumsy, easily distracted, huddled in the company of other misfits, unable to recognise the ambient roar of your intended...
read moreFrom Glendale to Rottingdean: The Rudyard Kipling Church
“Here the youth of yesterday, today and tomorrow may come for inspiration. Here they may find food for mind and soul” – The Builder Up in a lost corner of Glendale lies the sweeping hills of Forest Lawn. Lost is perhaps the wrong word to describe...
read moreAbeona Diaries: At The Alcove
Tuesday 28th October, on the grass outside the Church of the Recessional, Forest Lawn, Glendale. I just read over the last few pages of my notebook from New York and couldn’t quite remember the person writing it. It feels like yesterday and years ago. After four...
read moreInside the head of…..Bart Schaneman
Illustration by Fabio Vermelho Bart Schaneman is an author who lives and writes in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. He has published numerous stories, essays and poems and is most recently the author of a collection of essays Someplace Else: On Wanderlust, Expatriate Life,...
read moreAbeona Diaries: Summer in Oakland
The summer is already in full bloom in Oakland during the first days of June. It’s always a little warmer here than it is in San Francisco and here is where I am spending my last few days in America for a while. So much has happened in the past six weeks. I’ve...
read moreInside The Head Of…Barna Howard
Barna Howard is a singer songwriter from Eureka, Missouri. His eponymous debut album came out in 2012, and was followed up in 2015 with Quite a Feelin’ which was met with rave reviews and earned him comparisons to the likes of Townes Van Zandt, John Prine and...
read moreObscure Sorrows: Lachesisim
Lachesism – n. The desire to be struck by disaster—to survive a plane crash, to lose everything in a fire, to plunge over a waterfall—which would put a kink in the smooth arc of your life, and forge it into something hardened and flexible and sharp, not just a...
read moreTaming The Muse
“It comes from a place that no one commands and no one conquers…” Leonard Cohen is addressing the Spanish audience at the Prince of Asturias Awards. He is explaining, in his deeply charming and humble manner, how he finds his inspiration. “In other words”, he...
read moreSarah Crowder’s lists; ways to deal with the trauma of menstruating
I didn’t get my first period until I was 14. I was so excited that I whipped my freshly stained white knickers off and waved them in my mother’s face like a triumphant flag. I was so happy, the fact that every other girl in my year at school had already started...
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