Pandora's Box

For AO with love from HS X Up until the day it happened, and throughout the previous month, before it had occurred, which by the way h...

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Last year I was listening to Kim Cattrall on Woman's Hour talking about the joys of being single. An irony really when you think abou...

In Patrick Süskind novel Perfume , his protagonist Jean-Baptiste Grenouille possesses an exceptional sense of smell that enables him to ri...

I have been writing a steady stream of consciousness in this tiny part of cyberspace for the last five years. The only relevance its conce...

Prior to a life online, those of us of a certain generation sourced our information from a series of books that presented a world of illust...

When I was a little kid, I never thought of myself in terms of being a girl, I was just a genderless shy and sensitive child knocking abo...

The first time I ever visited Kew Gardens I paid one old penny to get in. I can still feel the turnstile against my body as I dropped that ...

I love observational comedy. It’s my absolute favourite. To see or hear someone else's humorous take on a relatively ordinary situation...

Most nights before I drift off to sleep, my mind eases itself into this unconscious state of being by telling a itself a story or two. ...

W inds in the east / Mist coming in / Like something is brewing / About to begin / Can't put me finger / On what lies in store / But I ...