tess mangiardi our world has five rooms When I envisioned 2020, I thought of The Great Gatsby. I saw myself on rooftop bars, drinking cocktails, and talking in a loud voice with my friends. I envisioned travel, weekends in Prague, weddings where we danced by the light...
gret heffernan on being civilised during covid-19 So, here we are, faced with the end of one way and the beginning of another where nature, since time immemorial, has summoned her phoenix of a question – Who are We? Not our normal preoccupied airwave of Who are You or...
susan platt arclight There was a moment of utter darkness as I stood in the incinerated remains of the kitchen in my brother’s apartment. The fire had burnt so hot it had shattered the windows, which the building owner had boarded up with wooden planks. It was early...
lyndsay lomax lockdown limericks Trapped in, locked down for so many days,Time races by in a terrifying haze.I stay put at homeWhere I try not to moan,But my waist’s expanding out sideways. How, oh how, do I stop touching my face?My nose, my neck, all over the...
franziska spitzli otherplace Life is grey, a blur really, one day melts into another. But wait, there are memories, memories not tainted with every day’s struggles. Memories of long walks with my family in the Swiss Mountains, memories of sand under my feet and...
