Literary

  • Granny’s Legacy

    A short story by Deniz Benim Lucy steps through the mirror leaving behind the world that was 2000 years into the future. She is glad to be back. She takes in the details that is her mundane room. The unmade bed. The jacket strewn across the chair that she’d wished she’d taken while she was…

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  • The Palinopsia of National Resilience – A Short Story (Introduction)

    By Tom Penn Palinopsia: ‘A visual disorder in which the patient perceives a prolonged afterimage‘ (Collins dictionary). National Resilience: ‘Coercive patriotism in pursuit of nefarious agendas’ (the new lexicon of Government). I was a latecomer when it came to scepticism regards the national response to Covid. Being one of the fortunate able to work outside,…

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  • Stop and Sob – A Story

    This story was sent to us by a reader as an alternative to the anger and hate we may often feel during all this madness. I The Stop and Sob Initiative proposes that, wherever each of us is, at midday, any day, through the Summer of 2021 (by the Western Calendar) – whether busy bringing…

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