Sharp Prose
Sharp Prose is a short story featured in Strangers. He said he was going to write a story about us. I took it seriously. Later, I found out it was. I was excited to hear that we could inspire...
View ArticleIntrospection
Write hard and clear about what hurts. — Ernest Hemingway When nobody was looking, I buried my ring in the sand and left it for the waves to carry it far away. I didn’t want him and the symbols of his...
View ArticleFashion Editorials — Schön! Magazine
Cut Me/ The est by eS.’ prêt-à-porter autumn/winter collection is guided by principles of order and calm, targeting women who look for timeless, yet intriguing, clothing. Featuring gently lowered...
View ArticleAbout #SYPconf14, Good Timing & Pixie Dust
I figured that, since I am a (NCTJ-qualified) journalist, I’d better start blogging about my opinions. It’s funny, I have a degree that gives me the right to talk… I must mention, though, that it’s 2AM...
View ArticleBCollide Presents OCD Test/ — Schön! Magazine
I interviewed Johnny Wang from BCollide for @SchonMagazine last week, and I’m extremely pleased and excited with the result! It was an interesting subject,and I had a lot of fun thinking of what the...
View ArticleBadland // Ascension
“The world is not made up of atoms; it’s made up of stories.” – Muriel Rukeyser ‘A week?’ she froze. That wasn’t what she had planned for. Then again, it wasn’t her who planned it in the first place....
View ArticleHow to Do Fashion When You’re Not Quite That Kinda Girl
After recently going out with the lovely Pixie, whose blog you can find at Journaux Des Fétichismes, and taking some great pictures together in Regent’s Park I began to think about having a Looks...
View ArticleNotes on Creativity, Changes & Little, Brown Book Group
“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.” — Chuck Klosterman It’s 2015 in a couple of days, and I feel that I must put on virtual paper some of...
View ArticleThe Corrs — Summer Sunshine
I lived by the sea for 3 years, and I often miss the house, the people, and the vibrations of the city. Now I live 2 hours away from beautiful Southsea and spend weekends there whenever I can, but I...
View ArticleYou Want to Talk About the Poems I Write About Us
Sometimes little things tip me into euphoria. Sitting at a bus stop at sunset, the warm wind rushing in every direction through my dark hair, over my bared golden skin. When I close my eyes I’m a...
View ArticlePhotoshootings with Alecsandra Raluca Drăgoi
I’ve been modelling for Alecsandra Raluca Drăgoi ever since I met her, in 2011. I have a feeling it’s because we work well as a team, and not because we live together and I’m available 24/7 for her....
View ArticleTraits of Great Salespeople Through the Barefoot Entrepreneur’s Eyes
The following is an exclusive piece written for BusinessZone. Successful business author Robert Ashton talks about why sales skills matter, and what makes a good salesperson in spite of common belief....
View Article#HowToBuildAGirl
It’s January 20something, which means that I’m back in London after my extra long holiday — and back to job hunting I am too. While working in a Sports Direct isn’t too bad an option, I can not wait to...
View ArticleWaking Up With Stories on My Mind to Tell Nobody
‘You met me at a very bad time in my life,’ I wrote. ‘Perhaps I would have been different in the summer. Last summer was especially beautiful, with its own set of rules carved in stone, until the last...
View ArticleBeing a Big, Bad, Brave Artist
It’s a good title, this one. It already sounds like it belongs to what I’m about to say. This is the first time I’m writing about the artistic identity I’ve been working all my life to develop. But...
View ArticleNothing Is Ever the Same As They Said It Was
The street shines glossy black after the rain. Pavement cafés are crowded, and vehicles hiss by — their roars constantly approaching, breaking, receding. I watch them holding my breath, forgetting to...
View ArticleBadland II // Descension
I’ve decided not to leave my Badland business unfinished, so I’m dedicating lunch breaks are late nights to continuing the story. You can read the first six chapters here VII // Getting Ready to Meet...
View ArticleMay? May! May…
I woke up to a Facebook news feed flooded with ‘May the fourth be with you’ geeky posts. They made me smile for a minute or two, until bleaker thoughts took over. It is May the fourth indeed, and I...
View ArticleImaginarium
from Badland, the draft of a new chapter — the first ones here & here She was feeling for the knob when she saw the light of his cigarette at the other end of the corridor. His words were still...
View ArticleHow To Be Your Own Story
The story underneath the story isn’t always pretty. You have to make up all the words yourself – the way they taste, the way they sound in the air – and twist them in such a manner that one can no...
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