First and Foremost
The idea to start this blog came as the culmination of a number of things. As I have started studying an accounting degree, I have started to somewhat neglect my writing (of plays, short stories,...
View ArticleHe stands on the tar…
He stands on the tar, his toes graze the newly painted lines – white as the flag. The journey is clear, the grass beckons. It promises closure, meaning, the proverbial ‘new beginning’. But behind him...
View ArticleThe Power of Personal Testimony
Last night I finally got around to watching a film that I have been meaning to see for a very long time – ‘Schindler’s List’. The tragic story details one of the worst periods in the history of...
View ArticleA New Beginning – Shanghai, China
Credit: iamuday I realise that I haven’t written a blog post for a long while, and there is a very good reason for that. Over the last two months I was fortunate enough to go over to live and work in...
View ArticleA Letter to Myself
Image by Kevin Dooley under Creative Commons Licence Dear me, Stop waiting for your dreams to fall in your lap! The world doesn’t owe you a thing. You have to go and fight for what you want. It...
View ArticleBe Real.
Photo: Pilottage I sit here, alone, at 2.30 in the morning, watching and listening to the sea crashing on my doorstep. I listen hesitantly to what is happening inside – my friend is having what I can...
View ArticlePull Back… Zoom In.
Photo: JD Hancock You look down at your cellphone. Pull back. You are sitting in a crowded room. Pull back. The alcohol is flowing, people are chatting excitedly and a steady hum of noise fills the...
View ArticleTwitter Fiction
Original Storyboard from Jennifer Egan’s short story: ‘Black Box’ Creativity comes in all different shapes and sizes, and it constantly adapts to fit in with the societal playground that it finds...
View ArticleExcuses.
Things did not go my way last week. To say the least. I have been sitting here trying to figure out how to write up all that’s gone awry recently, because I really don’t want to be one of those...
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