Life comes in all kinds of weird emotional shapes and sizes. There’s the moments of exquisite sorrow and heartbreak which bend you so far out of shape you wonder if you’ll ever bounce back to who you were ever again. Then there, thankfully for who can take that much pretzeling Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Goodbye humanity in The Desert
SNAPSHOTIn a future where humanity has abandoned its home planet—or perhaps gone entirely extinct, as bits of atomic-bomb imagery suggest—robots rule, but it’s a lonely and strange existence. They’re drawn to things that remind them of the past, like libraries and TV sets, but also feel more primal urges, like Continue Reading
Book review: The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin
People like, no, NEED to feel grounded and connected. Without that sense that we belong somewhere, to someone or to a particular time and place, we feel lost and unmoored, a debilitating condition that sends life into an agonisingly enervating limbo. Eileen Garvin explores exactly how this feels, with tenderness, Continue Reading