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Main Character Syndrome
Why is no one, I wondered, specifically considering ME and MY feelings?
Mar 18, 2022
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Joanna Fuertes
September 2021
An Ode to 'Bullshit Jobs'
After David Graeber’s death, I posted a quote from his book Bullshit Jobs to my Twitter account. It skewered the absurdity of how we’ve come to…
Sep 26, 2021
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Joanna Fuertes
December 2020
The Five of Pentacles
I used to have a secret admirer or stalker depending on which way you want to look at it, that would send envelopes stuffed with dried flowers or those…
Dec 20, 2020
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Joanna Fuertes
November 2020
An Eye for A Sleepy Eye
A fight over a bus window. Though it was frosty outside and they were sopping wet with condensation, I wanted to crack one open to let out the stench of…
Nov 28, 2020
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Joanna Fuertes
The Civility Myth
The springs had broken under the nook of the sofa that I’d claimed as mine while it dawned that Trump was going to win the 2016 Presidential race. But I…
Nov 8, 2020
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Joanna Fuertes
October 2020
The Glue Factory
I am not prepared for this level of intimacy. I haven’t had the level three regime of pampering that would put me at ease to be in this position…
Oct 24, 2020
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Joanna Fuertes
When The Lights Go Out
“Solitude is the luxury of the rich.” I think that’s by Camus or maybe from a fortune cookie. Either way, it’s a line I like to quote. Solitude has…
Oct 10, 2020
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Joanna Fuertes
September 2020
Halcyon Dial-up Days
Before the arrival of our family’s first computer, I had been manic to the point of hyperventilating. It was bought, we thought, in an ‘off the back of…
Sep 27, 2020
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Joanna Fuertes
The Cigar Box
Holland Park. A rare family day out. My sister, brother and I stood quietly squinting in the sun at a peacock. Faces pale and bags under the eyes from a…
Sep 12, 2020
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Joanna Fuertes
August 2020
The Lifeboat
A doctor, a lawyer, a cleaner, a cook. The list would go on but had to end with an artist, a musician and a writer. Then you draw a boat on the board…
Aug 29, 2020
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Joanna Fuertes
Sunlight in Strange Lands
My favourite stories about my mum are quite self-indulgent because they’re rooted in what I believe is a trait we share. Her flashes of ferocity…
Aug 15, 2020
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Joanna Fuertes
The Moonlight Menagerie
“The Moonlight Menagerie,” my primary school magnum opus, a story I’d written about a collection of animal statues that could come to life at night. I…
Aug 1, 2020
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Joanna Fuertes
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