Pleasure State with Jessica Alice
A month ago I was in Auckland; I remember the fold of us in the airport. I had helped a woman carry an inexplicable…
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House of Cardboard
One year in my childhood, in the nebulous age of boyhood where I was young enough to spend time playing with toys, but also…
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Sketches Towards a Theory of Existence
That night in November, I had allowed my MacBook to run out of battery. The screen went dark as I was waiting for the…
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Mai’s Super Sweet 16: March
This column is the second entry in an ongoing experimental diary series exploring the life of a fictional teen Vietnamese girl, Mai. 2 March 2005 I had…
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Miss Guidance: A Clairvoyant Experiment
This column is the first of an ongoing series in which Emma Marie Jones draws three tarot cards and unpacks the symbolism in the…
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International Women’s Day
The only commodity I wish to own is a pair of Dior Onde2 sunglasses. And the only hair I want is thick, horse-brown, heavy…
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Mai’s Super Sweet 16: February
This column is the first entry in an ongoing experimental diary series exploring the life of a fictional teen Vietnamese girl, Mai. 6 February 2005 Today…
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Some Dull Memoir
Man this took me ages to write. Day after day my boyfriend asked me ‘what are you gonna do to day’, and I’d say…
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The girl and boy made of smoke
She rests in her cottony, cloudy sheets and uncurls her toes lazily, with great pleasure. She considers her one-hundred-percentedness. Her uncle lied to his…
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