Every so often, in among all the inconsequential noise and inane babble of everyday life, someone will say something so profoundly impactful that it will alter you as a person. Something that changes your outlook on life, that you will henceforth carry around within yourself like a treasured trinket. These…

‘Those two are my favourites,’ I tell him, ‘I remember seeing them with Mom.’ Two distinct sentences. Separate. Unconnected. And then- ‘Do…

I look backwards so much because that’s where she is, some things are so obvious it takes years to perceive them, I lament the passing of the years because each one sweeps me further away from the time when she was here, so to those who have questioned my tendency to live among my…

Adulthood can be hard for those whose love language is quality time.

What are you speeding me towards, Life? Is it the things I want most? A little Leo or perhaps a Roxanne? A house of our own with space…

I do not care for small talk, I struggle to feign interest in your weekend or that errand you have to run, I want to know if you notice the misty blue of the horizon from the passenger seat, if the sight of rolling, tree-carpeted hills makes you want to march off on an adventure or…

I do mind, actually, I mind that you seem to think the details of my life are yours to go rifling through like a chest of drawers, I mind when you come barging into my inner life without even bothering to knock, I mind when you do the very things I’ve asked you not to, never…

Author’s note: trans people are who they say they are. When I drink a certain amount of white wine, a strange thing happens. I will, at some point in the night, wax lyrical about Harry Potter and how much the series means to me. It happened on my thirtieth birthday…

I never would have thought there would be this many, a whole horizon sprinkled with them, diamonds and rubies strewn across the invisible line where the blackness of the sea meets the blackness of the sky, the wind turbines putting on a light show just for us, pinpricks calling across the expanse, each one the dot…