Early Adulthood

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Scorpions in Goa, A Dark Memory by Lawrence Morgan

“It’s a tropical paradise, yes, but you must never sleep on the floor there...”

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Floodwater by Deborah Nash Ott

Just before the big flood of 1972 in Rochester, New York, in the wake of Hurricane Agnus, my father moved out of our house for good.

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Walking the Dog by Tim Atkinson

I have named my pain and called it ‘dog’ —Friedrich Nietszche, The Gay Science

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Self Worth through Hard Work at the Vicarage by Auriel Roe

I’d never been to Birmingham before and getting off the train at the dimly-lit subterranean station was not an auspicious start to summer.

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Christmas, Elsewhere by Heather Gatley

It was 1963. A blizzard blew across the grass outside the married quarters where we lived in RAF St Athan.

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Adventures in the B Movie Trade by Brian Trenchard-Smith

The source of the Actor’s anxiety arrives on the set, his partner in the scene, a male with dangling testicles each the size of grapefruit.

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Homemade Halloween by Auriel Roe

We’d hollow out rock hard swedes with sharp knives. When we lit the stump of a candle inside them, the smell of singed swede was beguiling.

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Biden in the Elevator, Trump in the Bar

Biden immediately dropped his briefcase and contorted himself into a wrestler’s crouch, hands in front ready to strike.

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Out of the Picture by Charles Hara

May 3rd, 1971. We're having a party. I’m six years old, and my parents still speak to one another.

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Departure by James Bloom

These events all occurred more than a third of a century ago, a minimum of a dozen more years than he was old at the time they happened.

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Have Chalk, Will Travel by Heather Gatley

‘Have Chalk, Will Travel’, ran a colleague’s doggerel poem at my farewell do.

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The Visa Siege by Lawrence Morgan

It was a bright October morning in Kabul, a few years prior to the Russian invasion of Afghanistan.

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Father by Liane U’Prichard

Tonight I rewatch a video my son posted some time ago, of him teaching his five year old to weave on a pretty complicated loom. The patient

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And Yener Danced With His Radio by Lawrence Morgan

The wind pressed on me from the south, a lodos wind, the Ottoman wind that drives men mad. I wondered if that was what was wrong with me.

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The First 36 Hours by Charles Hara

I open the case, take up the guitar and tuck the body under my right arm. It still fits, familiar; it feels like a reunion.

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Methylation by Rod Madocks

My Dad gave me a photo of himself to take with me as I set off at the age of seven to my tough Rhodesian boarding school.

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The Name Puzzle by Linda Petrucelli

Mother liked to pretend that my name was a family decision. I was the third child born to Donato and Carmella Petruccelli of Davenport, Iowa

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Passing the Pineapple by Auriel Roe, an extract from 'A Young Lady's Miscellany'

I had heard other women liken having a baby to passing a grapefruit, perhaps even a watermelon. This one was more akin to a pineapple.

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Walking to Oseira by James Bloom

I walked the main Camino de Santiago, known as the Camino Frances, in portions lasting around a week each, as my time and energy permitted

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Island Fever by Lawrence Morgan

Grenada, post-invasion, 1984. Twelve degrees latitude. Thirty degrees centigrade and humid.

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