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• A Piece Of Shit That Just Won't Quit

  

  Today, all my friends are dressed in beautiful, billowing ballgowns and immaculately tailored suits, as they wait patiently inside the ancient, cavernous... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• I Left for a whileAnd I've Learnt That It's Okay You Didn...

  I left for a whileAnd I've learnt that it's okay You didn't notice I chose to vanishThinking perhaps being missed Would help me feel foundBut then the... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• A Certain Kinda Sunday

  

  There's something about a Sunday, isn't there?Perhaps it's leftover anxiety from childhood schooldays, the perpetual post-weekend hangover of adulthood or the... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• The End of the Beginning

  

  As it was always going to be, the turn of September meant two things. A handful of the most frustrating days of my life, and the beginning of the end. Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• You Can't Hold Me Down, 'Cause I Belong To The Hurricane

  

  I've been trying to work out whether it is perhaps a phobia or the complete opposite, but for as long as I can remember, I've possessed an acute, crippling... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• 'Don't Grow Up, It's a Trap'

  

  Yesterday began as a bit of a downer.Consulting our finances delighted to inform us that we were closer to flat broke than ever before, even with the penpal... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Downtown Barfly Prophecy

  

  The smoky air of semi-drunken musicians mingle into the warmth of the summer night sky. "So what brings you to New York?" The girl in the hat next to me turns... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Saying You’re Controversial Is No Substitute For Being Interesting

  

  Hi, Will Lloyd of the tab, I edited your article for you. You're welcome x x x ' You’re not Katie Hopkins hun ok?So this is it: the persona-personality binary i... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• The Young & The Penniless: How To Make Everything from Nothing

  

  I'm sat on the floor of our apartment in Brooklyn, an open Kilner jar in front of me.With a tinkling crash I upend the contents of the jar onto the varnish... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• W a k e

  

  I'm standing inside the Hayden Planetarium in The American Museum of Natural History inside Central Park. The lights dim inside the giant dome, soft music begin... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• The Archive of Human Adventure

  

  On the 20th March 2015, I found myself stood upon a glacier in the Icelandic wilderness, miles from civilisation, watching the universe align in the sky above. Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• The Second Chapter: The Bushwick Days

  

  Well, dang. We actually gosh darn did it.Three nights before Greg's arrival, I left the boat for good. After a week of seemingly never-ending hell from... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• The Ballad of The Misplaced Man

  

  It's a fact I have proclaimed from the rooftops since I first came to be here;Nothing has been a greater surprise, delight and inspiration to me during my... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• 'So... You Got a 2.1?'

  

  - by Gregory Burns -If, like many others, you have just finished a three year stint at one of the UK’s many ~fine institutes of further education~ then you... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Bloodbeat

  

  The train rattles through the tunnels beneath the midnight city. I sit in the center of the carriage, body rocking gently with the motion. Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• A Safehouse in the Wild City

  

  What I love so ardently about 'The Bean' is that everyone in it could be elsewhere.Looking around, everyone has either a laptop, a book, a newspaper, pens,... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• The Great Escape

  

  It's taken almost two thirds of my trip, but I think I've figured out what frustrates me so much about being here.Being on this boat does not feel like I am in... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Midnight in Manhattan

  

  I don't wanna brag, but... I'm pretty damn good at feeling sorry for myself.I mean hey, with the amount of practise I've had over the years, I'm pretty sure I... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Big City Blues

  

  A slanted, cylindrical beam of golden light streams in through the porthole window of my cabin, an infinity of gravity-defying dust motes dancing and swirling... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• The 4th of July in New York City

  

  Have you ever had one of those moments, A moment that interrupts your perception of the pace of reality quite suddenly -Perhaps you witness an accident, bump... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2015 SELF EXPRESSION