Image: © Courtesy of Manchester City Galleries [Content trigger warning: abortion, medical procedure detail] Can you not feel anything in your body? This is the question a friend asks, sitting across from me in a low-lit cinema bar on the corner of Niederbarnimstraße, in Berlin’s Friedrichshain district. Half-drunk glasses of beer stand between our elbows. […]
Non-fiction
Comfort Me with Violins
Image: © Courtesy of Manchester City Galleries After I gave birth, the world became sleepless. We spent a year lost in an exhaustion so deep it split my brain. I saw rainbows refracted in the kitchen’s french doors, opening out to the yard glistening under the soft morning light. My eyelids twitched. My body swayed […]
The Curse
Image: © Courtesy of Manchester City Galleries [Content warning: descriptions of illness, blood] I had been bleeding for twelve days when I picked up the scent of the Ally Pally Witch. This time she was lurking in an audio clip from the Open University’s digital archives[i]. Robert Rowland, a former head of production at the […]