Barcelona in an airconless room on a Friday afternoon
A cushion trembles in front of me, lodged somewhat uncomfortably geometrical between its couch and the tea table my legs were stretched...
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Jordan Winters
May 183 min
Manila Commute
Do you know what it’s like to be an ant underneath a kid’s magnifying glass, being burnt to a crisp in the backyard? I do. It’s the only...
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Bill Arnott
Apr 243 min
Vancouver
The crows are in flight, reminders of omens and overcast skies. But this day is different, a horizon layered in gold as the birds start...
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William C. Crawford
Apr 13 min
Smelter Town
Our Jetta died when we stopped to answer the call of nature. A text to AAA yielded the prospect of a two hour wait for a mechanic. Our...
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Lorraine Caputo
Mar 73 min
Galápagos Sketches: The Saturday Feria
The morning mist has ended. Now the hammering of a new house being built and the crowing of a cock echo through this Saturday’s streets....
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Bill Arnott
Oct 27, 20232 min
Finding Saint Michael on the Gone Viking trail
A slosh of cool sea sussed a watery score as I shuffled through shallows, a thousand-year pilgrimage trail. In fact the route I was on...
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Jesse Ofsowitz
Oct 25, 20233 min
A Stranger in Tangier
I was in Tangier only briefly, and as one with nowhere to be, nowhere to go, no one to meet, I chose the path of the flâneur. I woke...
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Yvonne Kuvener
Jul 31, 20232 min
Labyrinth
The inner west. A different world. Our friend’s sandstone steps at the back thread down through a garden filled with exotic plants and...
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David Fowler
Jul 7, 20233 min
Travelling Between Planets in Texas
In 1986 I journeyed every weekend from my regular job in Dallas down to a four-room rented shack on 400 acres, an hour away, in a part of...
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Bill Arnott
Jul 6, 20232 min
Metaphoric: A Gone Viking Story
I stood on what felt like the edge of the earth. Which it was, in a way. Cusp of terra firma. Beyond, nothing but sea and sky. I’d hiked...
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Elizabeth Downing
Jul 6, 20233 min
Carillon
It’s fifteen past the hour and a handful of tiny trills emanates from the gingerbread structure down the hill. I’m close enough to...
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Brian Furze
Jul 2, 20234 min
Transformation and resilience in the shadow of Nanda Devi
My parents enjoyed gardening. The nearest nursery was in another small town 13km away. As a child I’d get loaded into the family car when...
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Paul Dufficy
May 8, 20232 min
A New Job
We landed at Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport at 2am. The airport had only one terminal and at that hour things were quiet. Our...
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Elizabeth Allison
Feb 23, 20234 min
Soft Focus
I’m a planner. Always have been. I keep lists and lists within my lists. I covered one kitchen wall with chalkboard paint to accommodate...
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F Scott Hess
Jan 29, 20234 min
Currency Exchange
“Chai khordi?” asked Khanum Poshti, inquiring whether I’d had tea during another slow afternoon in Farhang Markaz Maslakh. Focusing on...
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W Goodwin
Jan 22, 20233 min
Father and Daughter on the Road to Tora Bora
We met them on an unpaved mountain road in the Safed Koh range, an ill-defined area of 15% inhabited features like small farms,...
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D.P. Snyder
Jan 21, 20234 min
Rescátame del olvido
In La Candelaria neighborhood of Bogotá, the graffitied walls demand. Plead. Mock. Laugh.Hallucinate. Insist. Never have walls had so...
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Tim Walker
Jan 19, 20232 min
First Day in Scotland
Six months before you died of leukemia we arrived, defying medical advice, insomnious in Edinburgh airport on the red-eye from Chicago....
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Paul Dufficy
Dec 26, 20224 min
The Tunnel
Mick, Pat, me: 1962 Behind Mick’s house was a park with the usual poorly maintained play equipment which on an annual basis accounted for...
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Anne Kuster
Dec 12, 20222 min
Time to Burn
By my fifth afternoon in Pattaya City sunshine has tattooed the exposed layers of my skin. Shadows created by metallic hotels and palm...
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