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The sun rises up the moss-covered walls to slip between the open concrete slabs and across the white tiled floor of the hawker centre, where June is wiping tables with a cloth that has become part of her arm. She always looks tired this early in the morning in her worn nylon overalls and broken […]
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CG Casci spent three decades in design which also involved writing for professional press, brochures, websites and being a contributor to design and competition panels. His compulsion to recount stories such as travel logs, sketchbooks, and letters has more recently manifested as fiction. Educated in Scotland and London, he has worked and lived in various […]
The first thing that happens, you tell me, is that school stops. We are meeting in a room in a London university so that you can tell me, in anodyne safe surroundings, a bit about your life so far; I say so far because you aren’t old, you are maybe 30. We meet at the […]
The trader accustomed to the manners of Eastern Polynesia has a lesson to learn among the Gilberts. The ridi is but a spare attire; as late as thirty years back the women went naked until marriage; within ten years the custom lingered; and these facts, above all when heard in description, conveyed a very false […]
Ali Smith was born in Inverness, Scotland, in 1962 and lives in Cambridge, England. She is the author of Autumn, How to be both, There but for the, Artful, Free Love, Like, Hotel World, Other Stories and other stories, The Whole Story and other stories, The Accidental, Girl Meets Boy and The First Person and other stories. Hotel […]
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1850. While completing law studies in 1875, he also began to write. Due to a chronic lung condition from which he suffered, he traveled across West Europe for a remedy. He has written impressions of these journeys. In 1879, he arrived in California, where he married Fanny Osborne, […]
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