At the heart of being lies a dynamic tension: a dance between a centripetal force - a drawing inwards towards a gravitational centre, a...

Tolkien reminds us that “not all who wander are lost”. Can I reframe this current meandering, this drift through uncertainty, as...

I said, I just want to lie down and dream all day. Reality will never be as good as my imagined universe. ___ said, When you get those...

For five years, I worked on a question that no one believed in. I was a Nobody, a Nothing that posed no threat, so they didn't care about...

I really feel like I need to get off social media. I don't even want to check it and yet I find myself doing so compulsively. My hand,...

I search for the I – the italicised I, the I that seems to exist beyond the grammatical I, the self-stuff that somehow arises from the...

I replaced religion with scientific discourse and rational thought, but that left a certain emptiness that I have not been able to fill....

Life is completely meaningless because of its transience and finitude. Life is the only meaningful thing because of its transience and...

I. The others have a smoke outside and then we go back into the bandroom. ____ comes up beside me, holding out his beer. I take a sip....

However long it was, it was a long time. What tense does one use to describe this warping of inner time? Where one exists in a constant...

Alongside, in parallel, with. Not quite synonymous with together. Quite the contrary, in fact. In parallel actually implies a degree of...

A moment yesterday, under bright lights, in the crowd, an arm around me, my body cradled; I will protect you. There was nothing...

I try to quantify my misery, objectify it, apply the same scientific logic that is wont in my profession to mechanise it, that I may come...

When I was tiny, I hated the thing enclosed in always-too-large clothes that hung like sacks off me. Cloth bags drowning the emaciated...

What ancient synapse, what remnant of my old reptilian brain, wondered at the tessellations of light and shadow and felt something move...

The scientist within me is grounded in the primacy of matter as the sole and ultimate substance of the universe. Although I wonder at the...

Is it our greatest asset or our most fatal flaw? This perpetual and epicurean need for objects to obsess over, to fantasise about, to...

Had a serene and beautiful morning run today. It was magical: the stillness of the air, the emerald green surface of the creek reflecting...

Is that my words will fall into an abyss of nothingness created out of so muchness. When there is saturation, there is a loss of signal....

You held me for a little longer than necessary, a little too short for my liking. The warmth of your body was a pleasant surprise. It was...