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Jessie Greengrass
Jessie Greengrass was born in 1982. She studied philosophy in Cambridge and London, where she now lives with her partner and child. This story is taken from her debut collection, An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It, published in July by JM Originals.

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Scropton, Sudbury...

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July 2015

Jessie Greengrass

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July 2015

My parents were grocers. For twenty-five years they owned a shop with a green awning and crates of vegetables on the pavement outside, and...

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October 2012

Pressed Up Against the Immediate

Rye Dag Holmboe

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October 2012

The author Philip Pullman recently criticised the overuse of the present tense in contemporary literature, a criticism he stretched...

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July 2013

Occupy Gezi: From the Fringes to the Centre, and Back Again

Alexander Christie-Miller

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July 2013

Taksim Square appears at first a wide, featureless and unlovely place. It is a ganglion of roads and bus...

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July 2015

Agata's Machine

Camilla Grudova

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July 2015

Agata and I were both eleven years old when she first introduced me to her machine. We were in...

 

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