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The First Of Many Wives
I remember you as heaven, horseback, haughty, as I watched you glide past. You are now the past, a vision that is invited in, when I hear Happy Hour, by The Housemartins, and I recall, dark tresses, long dress, with a slit at the leg, the way you rode past, never knowing that you had…
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She Call Me “Heartbreaker”
It started with Jay Z’s verse, in Mariah Carey’s Heartbreaker. I had heard it thousands of times, but that time, in the midst of my own misery, and eventual heartbreak, I heard it, as if it was speaking to me directly. Shopping in solitude, because it had been an hour since I’d been adored, and…
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Ella at The End Of The World – Episode Sixteen
Read more of Ella at The End Of The World Back on the road. We’re having to go through rural areas to try and avoid soldiers, and we’ve mainly been travelling at night. I’ve been thinking a lot, about everything that has happened, and how small and insignificant everything before seems, in the face of…
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The Queen of Cluster C
I have… I have a thing that I’m not ready to discuss out loud, because it means I have to leave her behind, the girl I always thought I was. I am… I am not okay, and apparently, that’s okay, but it seems very not okay, when everyone socially distances from my crisis, like I’m…
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Ella at The End Of The World – Episode Fifteen
Read more of Ella at The End Of The World We’d stopped listening to the radio, a while back. At first, as I said, it was just static and messages asking us to stay at home, but then, every now and again, you’d find some music to interrupt to the static, or a rerun of…