Government Precautions: An Unethical Human Experiment
Sensory Deprivation It’s been difficult finding the words to express my worsening mood and deepening…
Browsing: Society
B9: Life in a Louisiana Care Home’s Covid-19 Cluster
A New Roommate Even before the sheriff issued his notice that you had to be…
Tea for Two
Delighted, I hold in my hand, one of only three known photographs of meself as…
Break an Exit V – The Arson Bells
ment[email protected] Mumruinho has made it. My sister managed to sneak a pack of menthols into…
Where have all the Lefties Gone?
Revolution? Really! Lately there seems to be something very right-wing about being on the ‘Left’.…
Covid-19: are we really all in this together?
Introduction What I don’t find nice, and I really don’t need, is people clapping. I…
Break an Exit IV: The Phsylicon Valley
Sea waves come and go, but the Ocean stays. Zen Haiku Truth is a metaphor…
I Do Not Consent
I didn’t particularly want to write this article. I didn’t want to get involved in…
Leaving Certificate Under Lockdown
Today is a better day, with the roof of my home intact and my family…
Porto Under Lockdown
Antiga, Mui Nobre, Sempre Leal e Invicta, the city of Porto, a place so magical,…
A Voice from the Cocoon
Here’s Mr Pip, aged parent”, said Wemmick, and I wish you could hear his…
Never Such a Meal
Years ago, arriving late one evening in Ostende by train – always my favourite means…
A Rat on the Wall
1960s Belfast Sat in silence on the bottom step, with my knees tucked under my…
International Women’s Day: WomenXBorders
This year marks the 109th International Women’s Day. The now universally recognized date first bore…
Keep Spinning until you Drop
Never boast to your children that you had seventeen occupations before your twenty-fifth birthday. I…
Break an Exit Part II – Mumruinho
Editor’s Note: In the first episode of ‘Break an Exit’ we met the author –…
A Monk Manqué – ‘what a young girl in love will say to keep her man’
Disregarding chronological order, this is the tenth episode of A Monk Manqué, Bob Quinn’s unpublished…
Siberian Blue
Prokopyevsk, 1974 SNOW is everywhere. So much of it, that the whole world looks like…
On Procrastination
2019 has taught us all we need to know about Mortality. So many writers, musicians,…
BREAK AN EXIT
Addiction or eviction: Lost Paradise Junction. I’m staring at a blue wall. Real close. I…