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Does anyone else remember being born?
Does anyone else remember being born? Perhaps one’s birth is so traumatic that we wilfully erase it from memory. If only I had been so blessed.
The Christmas Disco
Holly Watson takes a retrospective view at a school Christmas Disco
So you’re socially awkward too?
My daughter is a socially awkward child in a world of tests and labels. At 18, she will be tested for asperger's syndrome.
12 fragments of a first job
Adventure, excitement and drugs. All the things that don't appear on a resumé.
Confessions of a Bad Waitress
I am a bad server. A very bad server. And I do not enjoy my job at all. But I make money and I won't be doing this forever.
The Last of the Porn Peddlers
In a time before wi-fi, Laurence Rivers looks back to his childhood and a particularly didactic incident of buying porn.
If we build it : the reality of being homeless
The reality of being homeless exposed by those currently living it.
Things I haven’t said
Michael Herrington recalls his childhood of growing up with a stutter. Commonly misunderstood, living with a speech impediment can affect you in many ways often invisible to the listener.
Tell me again how racism played no part in Brexit
I've just been verbally abused for being Jewish. I have never been targeted in this way before but my experience, it is quickly becoming apparent, is not an isolated one in post-Brexit Britain.
Life as a Single Mom
I can say though that since becoming a parent, it has really made me stop and magnify the things in my life that I don’t really like about myself and want to change.
Running of the Bulls
Trouser-less and here in rural Spain. This is how the “Carnaval” finished for me.
