An elderly person stands idly out the front of a hardware store. There's a look of reluctance on their face. Their car is in the furthest away parking spaces, and the trolley full of large bags of potting mix is too heavy for them to move. A mother
Welcome to the echo chamber. Blinding white noise bellows through your mind, Intrusive thoughts immersive yet not known to be kind, No chance to press pause or play, let alone rewind, Welcome to the echo chamber. Hands pressed to your ears, The deafening roar of silence in place of all
Old mate Mick from down the road. Lives about a stone's throw away. Ripper bloke, once you get to know him anyway. We all know Mick, even if you didn't understand a word of the backwater jargon you've just read. He's a
I’m seven years old, standing in the yard, Dad’s teaching me to catch with hope that one day, his son will be a star, Fuelled by misguided confidence, I’m surely destined to go far. Listening to songs about fireflies lighting up the night, 10,000 bugs and
I was wandering through Ho Chi Minh in southern Vietnam when I took a break to sit in the plaza across from Ben Thanh Market. A young man with a microphone and a camera approached me. Despite the obscurity of the situation, he approached me calmly and spoke softly in
Do you remember the year 2000, when 2030 felt like a distant dream? That was over 25 years ago. You're an adult now, apparently. You grew up with technology developing in your hands. You played Snake on a Samsung flip phone in the back seat of a car