‘Afterwards Ellen liked to say she had once been to America but couldn't remember it very well.‘
Afterwards Ellen liked to say she had once been to America but couldn’t remember it very well. She had driven from the East Coast to the West Coast and back; she had been in California, Utah and Colorado; had seen Iowa, Illinois and Idaho; had gone swimming in the Atlantic and the Pacific, in the …
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‘The anglophone world, we have to infer, has run out of words for its own feelings.’
Daisy Hildyard on the wisdom of scarecrows.
‘What is the read receipt for?’
Lillian Fishman on texting, power and the ethics of leaving a friend on read.
‘Like pretty much everyone who uses the internet, I have seen many terrible things that I did not search for and that I cannot unsee.’
Rosanna McLaughlin on what the internet thinks she wants.
‘I have a pathological addiction to the internet, which I indulge with the excuse of making art. It rarely translates to anything good and mostly leaves me overstimulated and afraid.’
Paul Dalla Rosa on excess and the internet.
‘rumors of bees on speedwell, / no oxidative stress just / effortless pollination’
Two poems by Sylvia Legris.
‘The story distracts the readers from the heart of the matter; it distracts them from me.’
Fiction by Judith Hermann, translated by Katy Derbyshire.
‘Time retreated, his dread crouched in the farthest recess of his mind.’
‘My first and only visit to a therapist cost me my red coral bracelet and my lover.’
‘I was constantly reading job ads, trying to find my holy grail – a job I could stand to do, and someone foolish enough to hire me.’
Sandra Newman on learning how to play professional blackjack.
‘I settled in, decades ago, to the idea that I was just going to write from a gay position, without explanation or excuse.’
Alan Hollinghurst on writing from the outsider’s perspective and cataloguing queer life.
‘For reasons I don’t want to go into, I decided to commit suicide.’
