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Monthly Archives: June 2025

Throw Away Your Phone

Death scrolls are just kitchen chats with someone you don’t really like, in disguise.

Posted byoliver.banksJune 20, 2025June 20, 2025Posted inArticlesTags:Addiction, Anxiety, Capitalism, Distraction, MinimalismLeave a comment on Throw Away Your Phone

Singing Opera on a Motorbike

The cracks in this utopia of otherness were beginning to appear, I knew.

Posted byoliver.banksJune 20, 2025June 20, 2025Posted inFiction, Short storiesTags:Alienatin, Displacement, Isolation, Performance, TransitionLeave a comment on Singing Opera on a Motorbike

Smelling of Salt

I lay later in my bed, sweating.

Posted byoliver.banksJune 20, 2025June 20, 2025Posted inFiction, Short storiesTags:Deprivation, Intimacy, Isolation, Playfulness, TransformationLeave a comment on Smelling of Salt

The Albanian Canto

The grid of the possible stretches laconic beneath.

Posted byoliver.banksJune 20, 2025June 20, 2025Posted inFiction, PoetryTags:Memory, Nature, Temporality, Transcendence, Transformation, TravelLeave a comment on The Albanian Canto

On Intimacy

Two figures sit on a bench, looking out at clear waters and an orange sun

If we cannot be beautiful, dangerous, seductive – well then we might as well not be at all.

Posted byoliver.banksJune 20, 2025June 20, 2025Posted inArticlesTags:Intimacy, Philosophy, social relationsLeave a comment on On Intimacy
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