Wealth fuels sprawl. It can also buy a false sense of being away, guarded from reality. In one such fictional … More
Tag: prose
Jay Simpson
I found a weighty, rectangular stone about one meter long and half a meter tall and thick. Marina saw me … More
beach holiday in indonesia by Oscar Gaynor
a grain of sand meets another rolling in a swell: plom plom plom tink plom plom plom whoosh. beaches are … More
Loomings by Sam Williams
This body will become an island. These bones will fracture and erode to sand; and this flesh will float in … More
Cally Spooner
SCENE 4 Dear Kevin Spacey. This is not a sustainable city; it doesn’t care about the future much. It … More
Matt Connors
In preparation for a forthcoming studio move, and before leaving for a two week stay in coastal Maine, I started … More
Traffic Island by Jeremy Atherton Lin
My earliest memory is of an island in winter, its formidable mountain blanketed with snow. We descended on plastic saucers, … More
Doris Ho-Kane
“We were influenced by what was happening in the Black and Puerto Rican communities. Why not us? Who are we? … More
Olivia Laing
The lido is an island state, I’ve just decreed that. I’ve got a pass but you can have one too. … More
On the subject of creating a film on a remote island by Joseph Curran
Our journey began with a six day sea voyage from Cape Town. Amongst us on the ship there was a … More