They keep trying to pull the book out of her hand as she cries, ‘no, please, I need to keep reading.’
If she stops reading the demons of the real world would swallow her into the darkest corners of herself.
They don’t get it.
You have a little cruel streak
How come you’re never smiling when I look at you?
You have very soft hands
No one will love you with thighs that fat
One in ten people are asthmatics, and three people die of asthma in the UK every day, although many cases of asthma are not as severe. These numbers look like 300 million patients and 250,000 deaths a year around the world.
Where is the fine line between encouraging a certain way of living, and forcing a certain image? An image that undoubtedly never fails to glorify habits that are unhealthy for the self, and others. Social norms and new standards of manhood are constantly growing and manifesting unfortunate levels of toxicity among men, pressuring an uphold of certain appearances that are becoming difficult for a man to maintain.
A woman walking the streets at night. A girl playing with her hula hoop. Another woman standing in the shadows. Which one is you?
The phone rang. I picked it up. I cried. I’d been interviewing for a publicity assistant position at an independent publishing house. It was the ….
It stares at me, unblinking. I stare back, back down the barrel of the gun pointed between my eyes, not wanting to look but unable to look anywhere else.
Lava on the tips of your gown you come forward, angels drown gathered under the eclipsed sun crumbling castles collapse behind you molten clouds gush ….
Alina: A Song for the Telling by Malve von Hassell tells the story of Alina, a 14-year-old girl in 12th century France who has lost ….
If I said the word ‘housewife’, the first thing that would come to mind is a woman who doesn’t work. Digging even deeper, perhaps a ….