01 — Journal
Things noticed on the way somewhere else
Notes, essays, observations and the occasional story. Some are a sentence long. Listed newest first, like a table of contents for an issue that never closes.
- Sunday kettlesnote — 1 minAt about ten past nine on a Sunday every kettle on our road clicks off within the same minute. You can hear it if the windows are open. It sounds like…
- The 140 at 07:12essay — 2 minSame bus, same seat, same eleven people. Notes from a year of the same commute, and why I stopped wearing headphones on it.
- Concrete does not pretendobservation — 1 minThe multi-storey car park behind the high street is the most honest building in town. A short defence of a building nobody likes.
- Three names on a tiffinstory — 1 minA steel lunch box from Bhuj, scratched with three names in three different hands. Nobody in the family can agree whose it was first.
- A map of every shop bell on the high streetidea — 1 minThirty-one doors, thirty-one sounds. An idea for a map you listen to instead of look at.
- Dusk on Ngong Roadnote — 1 minNgong Road at dusk: the traffic stops moving and starts talking instead. Horns in short sentences. A matatu playing something with a bassline you can…
Nothing of that kind yet.