Ling Ma’s new short story collection, Bliss Montage, leads us down strange, stimulating paths — and then leaves us before we can fully gather our bearings.
Tag: solitude
Quiet Sounds
We say The Quiet of the countryside But actually The countryside is Quite a noisy place The day begins with The Dawn Chorus of Birds and Bees Bees buzzing …
The Curious Case of Lonely Celebrations
We never really learnt or adapted to actually be alone with nothing but ourselves – to pause, to think, to wander and wonder.
A Taste of Perpetual Sorrow
'Is happiness a common resource? A river that flows through every household?'
Navigating Solitude: On Writing a PhD Thesis During a Pandemic
The hypothesis that writing requires solitude as a pre-requisite parameter for good results has been proven wrong – at least in my case.
New Moon
A poem on coping with the highs and lows of bipolar disorder.
It’s Rather Splendid To Be a High-Functioning F***-Up
'Life and times run horizontally'.
The Musings of Solitude
'It’s 3 am and my mind is sentient with words'
What to Expect, and Not Expect, When You Become an Orphan
Life is unapologetically unpredictable – all you can really do is hope for the best.