Sex, Vogue & DC10
The sun sets in Ibiza at around 9.57pm, and as the moon comes up so do I, surrounded by a rush and heaving mass of vibrating bass, boom, boom, boom and in my head there, I go, you, me, I, he, all at once.
Browsing: The Idler
Haggis
As I passed below the mysterious Chanctonbury Ring, an Iron Age hill fort planted with a copse of beech trees bent north-east by the prevailing wind, I saw a figure stop at the gate I was approaching. He was waiting for me…
Short Fiction: Cigar
In the depths of my sleep, a niggle prompts me to turn over, and the resulting disarrangement causes me to frown in annoyance. I am now aware of my retina, and the daylight penetrating the thin membrane of my closed eyelid.
While You Were Asleep
Miss York is back with her sharpened pencil, musing late at night about words in our lexicon suffering the lash of society’s truculent tongue. To sleep, perchance to dream; ay, there’s the rub…
Dirty Old Town
Volatile literary genius, feared poet, vitriolic satirist and legendary Delhi journalist, Rahnam Pachry, turns his acerbic wit and his poison-tipped fountain pen to the dirty old town of London.
Liberace’s Air
He was talking to Katharine when I entered the restaurant, in that gallant, paternal way some older men of a certain character adopt when speaking to the young. He was certainly a character, with his bear-like frame…
Quo
In this year’s first instalment of short fiction writing, Bridport Prize shortlisted author, Maddie York, weaves a darkly surreal tale about Scrabble, delusion, and a baby called Quo.
Don’t Mention the War!
German humour; an oxymoron or a misunderstanding of language and culture? Tom Garton discovers that perhaps the Germans do have a sense of humour after all. No really, they do…
Wanderland
As we move inexorably into spring, roving explorer Harry Chapman pens a fond farewell to the winter months and that bracing weather phenomenon that carries with its crystalline flakes the ability to invigorate the soul.
Indecent Prepositions
Train travel; romanticised by writers from Paul Theroux to Graham Greene, hailed by many as the most elegant form of long distance travel, allowing one to escape from the foibles of the modern world. Or so we like to think…
On the Milieu of Overpriced Veg
Charlie Hill, author of The Space Between Things, reports on a vegetable-based scandal that has rocked the world of the organic eco-warrior. It is a sordid tale of deception, and one that will stay with you for many a moon…
Perils of the Party Season
Groan. It’s that time of year again, when we young, sprightly females are supposed to…