I learned one thing from the latest (June 2021 — October 2021) lockdown: I love living alone and I don’t miss anyone. It’s been over three years since I saw my family, it’s been over three years since I saw my “fam in Turkey”, it’s been the good half of…

It has been completely downhill since I turned 25. Hangovers besting me, temperamental issues, five hours of rest not being good enough anymore, growing impatience, stressing about the future and all… I turned 32 on Thursday. Things were already changing in my life and I was expecting a few resolutions…

It was one of those mornings. Crisp, but sunny. Calm, but crowded (streets). No traffic, but impossible to find parking… As it was my day off, I had a few errands to run , from visiting my barbershop to stopping by the pharmacy. Traffic was driving me crazy. I was…

Tradition. I’ve been doing that since 2013. Sport event of the year: Liverpool FC winning EPL Frustrating news of the year: Covid-19 Man of the year: Sinan (Merc cunt) Woman of the year: Jade Doggo of the year: Tank (same as 2019) Disappointment of the year: K (refer to the…

It wasn’t the first time I found myself in a room with a distinct smell of medicine. It wasn’t the first time I found myself in a room with someone in a white, lab coat. …

Isolation is hard. Lockdown is harder. Nearly everyone I knew was suffering from not being able to properly socialise. Solitude or jail, you name it. However, every cloud has a silver lining and my silver lining was focusing more on movies and series I haven’t seen before - during the…

“You know, there is a vast difference between loneliness and aloneness. Some of the younger students may still be unaware of loneliness, but the older people know it: the feeling of being utterly cut off, of suddenly being afraid without apparent cause. The mind knows this fear when for a…

The beginning was fine. We were joking about it. We thought it wouldn’t happen to us in Australia. (Late December, early January) February and March, we did nothing but watched the news coming from a few European countries and Asia. Mid-March, we started to worry as it was spreading across…

Recipient: F Life was beautiful, even though I hated your shenanigans. They weren’t shenanigans, per se… But they would come to me in instalments and I was only 10. I was too young to see the pattern of your requests. “Could you get me pills, boy?” “Could you please give me…