Crownhill, Plymouth 20.1.43 Dear Agnes (Gennie in future), Just a line to let you know...
Just a line to let you know the shocking type is still alive. I am sorry you couldn’t turn up at the station to see him off. It was really very selfish of him to suggest it. He would have left a poor defenceless Gennie in the dark in the city of Manchester.
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‘What is the read receipt for?’
Lillian Fishman on texting, power and the ethics of leaving a friend on read.
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Rosanna McLaughlin on what the internet thinks she wants.
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‘I'd already begun to suspect that sex brought misery or death, and now I knew.’
‘Skirtless, jumperless, she lies on the floor, her hair settling about her like a silky parachute.’
