Short Reads
The world of online dating provides a potential minefield for women looking for more than desperate narcissists.
A funny recollection of a wedding that wasn’t to be from a young girl growing up in 90s Britain.
A larger-than-life character provides a constant source of frustration for our music industry insider.
In a time before wi-fi, Laurence Rivers looks back to his childhood and a particularly didactic incident of buying porn.
My daughter is a socially awkward child in a world of tests and labels. At 18, she will be tested for asperger’s syndrome.
Any expat eventually has to assimilate into the local culture, regardless of how low you feel you must stoop.
I’m a millennial, a writer and I have dyspraxia. My history of being socially isolated by my peers has made me stronger and wiser.
I may not have a stomach but I sure am hungry for life. 10 years and 27 surgeries later, this is my story.
Bedbugs, the blood-sucking perverts of the pest world and one man’s journey to rid America of them.
When visual artist Tina Martel was diagnosed with Stage 2B breast cancer she decided to document everything. ‘Not in the Pink’ details her experiences.
A man tries to flirt with an unsuspecting woman only to discover something he was not expecting.
An excerpt from Simon Mason’s “Too High Too Far Too Soon”, a revelatory rock ‘n’ roll memoir of a life of drugs, Britpop and spiralling drug addiction.
It had been years since our father left. Our mother held a secretary job during the day and was no match for Dominic and I working to extend our freedoms.
Talking Soup caught up with the ‘godfather of Scots-Funk’ turned politician, Jesse Rae after the 2015 UK general election.
A struggling writer works in a cafe and discovers a secret business operating in his workplace.
I murder the people I love inside my head. I fantasize about where I’ll go, what I’ll do and how their funerals will be.
Found on the shores of The West Midlands, Holly Watson tells the tale of a young girl’s experience growing in 90s Britain. This was an Easter to remember.
I can honestly say that my decision to become the Florence Nightingale of the 21st Century was probably one of the dumbest decisions I made.
I want a tattoo, but I don’t want my tattoo to be from Topman, because I’ll see someone with that same tattoo on a Friday night in New Cross.
Writer and activist, Joseph Meehan, reports from the front line of the Freddie Gray Jr. protests in Oakland, CA.
Are you #cleanliving or are you a twat? Clean living and liking salad is totally fine, you just don’t have to tell everyone about it.
