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Humanity’s Great Hope in Times of Pain and Pestilence

Humanity’s Great Hope in Times of Pain and Pestilence

June 9, 2020
by Maya Skidmore
Features

Where to look when things feel dire When my grandfather was a punky British 14-year-old in 1944, he would stand at his bedroom window watching…

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Peaches, (Potentially) Problematic Sex and a Murder Mystery in a London Airbnb

Peaches, (Potentially) Problematic Sex and a Murder Mystery in a London Airbnb

February 29, 2020
by Maya Skidmore
UK Yarns, Yarns

Jason*, our Hugh-Grant-lookalike Airbnb host, was prone to wild sporadic fits of weeping. It was the kind of animal uncontrollable wailing that you often hear…

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Travelling When Broken: A Memoir

Travelling When Broken: A Memoir

February 25, 2018
by Maya Skidmore
Yarns

I am sobbing as surreptitiously as I can in a scungy Indonesian bathroom, clutching two strawberry daiquiris bigger than my head. My cleavage is blistering…

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Ever Heard of a Girlish Explorer?

Ever Heard of a Girlish Explorer?

May 15, 2017
by Maya Skidmore
Features

We all know about the Great Explorers. When I was eight, I learned about ‘em all in one big Friday arvo whammy. Ernest Shackleton, Captain…

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"We Could Make a Fkn Glass Crater Out of the Middle East for All I Care"

“We Could Make a Fkn Glass Crater Out of the Middle East for All I Care”

March 22, 2017
by Maya Skidmore
Current Affairs

The charming sentence that titles this piece first came to my attention in the sunny year of ’06, when The Chaser took to the streets…

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Dear 2017, Please Be Kind

Dear 2017, Please Be Kind

January 11, 2017
by Maya Skidmore
Current Affairs

Fuck, I go. I think this is the future. It’s 2017, and the Old World slips away from us more and more every day. Fidel…

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