I don't think I'm going to send out a great deal of submissions this year... I have some excellent reasons for putting that side of things on pause.
Come In From The Cold: A History of My Relationship With Christmas
What changed me from hating Christmas to being a celebrant? Why did I hate Christmas in the first place? How can you act to make the festive season as joyful for those around you as it is for yourself?
Japan.
I wish I could give you Hokkaido winter like you want it. Independence, structure, cultural benevolence ought to be a simple inheritence. I'm not disinterested but I don't know what it holds for me to be in a place where I can't speak, can't understand. Where my very bones ache with the cold, the two... Continue Reading →
The Late-Romantic dot com Gift Guide – The Person You’re Saving for a House With
You clearly love this person a lot, but money is also clearly something you've discussed and you're on track for building a life together, which takes cash. How can you show your partner that you care in both the long and short-term? Etsy jewellery. People like pretty things, and rather than going for mall jewellery... Continue Reading →
Hotel room food network
A short love poem set on holiday.
Five Towns and Fenton
A poem about seeing somebody you used to know well and being ignored.
Drummond Street
Alphabet Superset week 4 do-over, about a place (as it should be)
In Defence of Gaylor
Taking stan wars seriously 2k23
Social Media Life Hacks
Here are the steps I will be taking to improve my feed and step back from social media - without deleting my accounts.
Schrödinger’s Text Message
Relationships have been changing for years now. In an age of social media, people you were once close to update you in the same way they update their close friends and family. You know intimate details about their life, even when you haven't spoken in years, and it's no wonder that we don't know who our friends are or how we want our relationships to look.