I found this beautiful version of Ariel at Hebden Bridge, a little town just beneath the hill where Plath is buried at Heptonstall. Later I would later hike up there and see the two churches, the old one, burned down or deteriorated by time, and the new one that seemed dull to me compared to the expanse of a forgotten church. I didn’t know she was buried there so I walked right past her with her book in my bag. In the dullest of conclusion […]
Are you my mummy?
“It’s our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive.” The name Bechdel is for me synonymous with the Bechdel test. I was, of course, vaguely aware that the phrase originated from a person named Bechdel who did something with comic strips or drawing on the internet, but other than that it was just a feminist test that was popular for a while, but has since gone somewhat out of fashion. <sidenote> The Bechdel test has been criticized for being insufficient, that it’s too easy. […]
Life
A musician’s instrument is broken. He walks to the shop to buy a new one, but each one he tries sounds wrong. He travels across the country to buy another one, but when he comes home it still does not sound right. So he decides to die. Chicken with plums takes place in the eight days were he is waiting to die. He stays in bed thinking over his life, as his children, wife and family visit him to try to talk to him. Nothing […]
Christmas kissing book with up to THREE kisses #wowza
The day before Christmas Romily Parker confesses to her best friend, Charlie, that she loves him. Except it doesn’t go as planned. AT ALL. Instead of a romantic, glowing moment, there is only a low awkward silence. Romily runs out through the Birmingham Christmas market where she collides with a toy booth, spilling the toys everywhere and causing much embarrassment to herself UNTIL handsome stranger steps up to help. Handsome stranger then stalks her halfway across the market calls her beautiful and kisses her. And […]
Mint means good.
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to live in England. I mean, really live here, when you’re done eating crumpets and scones and marveling at the beautiful buildings and the kindest, most wonderful people (though I can only speak for the North). When you’re done with that and you almost become one of the English people then it just you riding the train. A lot. And you still get lost a lot. And the places you get lost are hillsides down to train tracks […]
How do you solve a mystery when you can’t remember the clues?
Maude lives alone. Her carers come by and tell her not to buy anymore food, because she has too many tins of peaches already. She goes to the shops and forgets why she is there and then she buys tinned peaches. She has a daughter and her daughter sighs at her a lot and tells her not to eat so much toast. But Maude knows that Elizabeth is missing, because she has notes all over that tell her so. She writes the notes to remember […]
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