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Reflections On Equal Marriage From A Born Bride
At the very beginning of the year, London’s sky was filled with fireworks. The annual New Year’s fireworks display that closed out 2023 and welcomed 2024 featured a touching tribute to ten years of same sex marriage in the UK. As the night lit up, my mind was filled with memories of the many times…
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The Difficult Second Wife
Bursting from the past’s shadow to initially engaged applause,she steps onto the scene and the crowd falls silent,there is a cough from the back of the auditorium,a whistle and crash as hopes fall like ancient bombs,for she is the difficult second wife. She is the dreaded second chance at love,the one who was ACTUALLY the…
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Straight and Narrow
Every now and then I find myself fantasising about the most unremarkable things.Daydreaming about washing dishes as you dry with a tattered teatowel,when my guilt comes in gallons and works its way down my throat,I think about washing dishes with you,with your favourite record playing from the living room,and your hands, wrinkled from the water…
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Growing Up
I think wistfully about what I will be like when I grow up. Clean credit cards, a clean sink that gleams, as if it has never glimpsed a dirty dish, a son, settled into sleep (I am so convinced it is a boy), while I write, perched on the windowsill, singing softly to my assorted…
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My Misspent Youth
Cool girl, Canary Wharf, pickpocketing promises, of necklaces and neck kisses, when all she wants is dinner and drinks, the chance to collapse into the city, see the world, on the right side of the river. Taking notes, in lectures, bustling bars, on how to find a rich man, to take to the inevitable family…
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Sincerely, Jennifer x 