Written by Ceylin Dogan I have never been very trusting of love’s public image. Even before I had any personal claim to the word, I distrusted the versions of it that circulated so effortlessly around me in films, in songs, in careless conversations. So often it appeared as spectacle, or appetite, or dependence mistaken for… Continue reading Love as a Moral Act
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The Apartments We Visit
Written by Larissa Straßer How do we measure time? How do we measure moments and memories and a life lived? I keep a counter, a visual one. It is a mental list of all the apartments I have visited in my life. From my grandma’s house with the dark green oven tiles and the hidden… Continue reading The Apartments We Visit
Nina or The Visit
Written by Larissa Straßer Out of the darkness, out of the cold, a smell of sweet wine and raisins flows towards me. Not because she’s been drinking or baking, that’s just her smell. In other texts, I’ve tried to capture her scent better, because she smells beautiful, but I’ve always just reached similar descriptions. Her… Continue reading Nina or The Visit