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Quiet thoughts, what I fall in love with, very short stories, and longer answers to life.
By Ella Frances Sanders · Launched 2 years ago
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No.176
Sweep it off the table like those small, twisted up pieces of eraser that always end up on the underside of your socks. An orange glow starts to bleed from the streetlight, over the side of the road and down the steps into your darkness; it doesn’t apologise for interrupting the…
May 28
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The last six weeks, a list: Travelled my body from Ireland to Scotland to south west UK and then back to Scotland, consequently tired but the main objective of moving house was achieved and will eventually be less tired I’m sure Turned into a creature that mainly all day every…
May 21
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No.177
June, a list: Reflections of birds in windows We are destroying mostly all things at a broken-neck speed and so surely there is simply no time any more for people to spend on destroying each other? Though this does not seem to be widely accepted or even acknowledged
Jun 25
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No.174
There isn’t really a suitable place to begin, because the world falls apart and back together at all hours of every day forever, and sometimes this is a bearable fact but mainly it is not. I’m preparing to move country again, for what feels like the thousandth time in three years…
Apr 9
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No.173
Last Sunday I tried to take you back to the end of the world. I’d been there before, just once, at some point in the previous year on an afternoon when…
Mar 26
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No.172
It might be yesterday, or it might be several months ago, or I might as well be existing at some point in the future. This is to say: sometimes I’m not…
Mar 19
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No.171
This short, dragging month has for the most part been defined by small birds outside—goldfinch, siskin—and by migraines, by a lot of work done rapidly…
Feb 19
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No.170
January ending, a list: It doesn’t matter how much the sun comes through the windows laundry refuses to truly dry and this leads to questioning all my…
Jan 29
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No.169
I don’t think that in all my winters, in all my springs, I’ve ever been so aware of the buds waiting on trees, on everything, and it seems as though…
Jan 22
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No.168
People, small in their surroundings, made smaller still by the glare of the sunlight; they look for weightlessness but it’s as slippery as that green…
Jan 15
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I don’t know what to tell you, because there are so many things that I could say, or not say. I like best to start these newsletters with something that…
Jan 8
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I find myself with little-to-nothing to say, about much at all. The grass outside the window steadily loses green, and birds visit the feeders outside…
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