Soho Nights, Soho Daze
Of course in the morning I have sat down and tapped out the tales of miscreants and adulterous drug-takers, the diaries of lost performing women and feckless falling men mumbling about half remembered love. I make notes of red-wine-stained mouths telling impenetrable truths to wide-eyed, star-struck girls. Occasionally overwhelmed with imbibing all the salacious gossip of Soho that drips off the ceiling (‘she took him home and he wet the bed, he did!’), I look at the famed photo of Maurice Chevalier’s cheeky grin of recognition. Plus ça change, eh!
A ‘real’ story by Sophie Parkin.
In The Dust Zone
In August 2001, Maggie Dubris was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Three weeks later, on 9/11, she responded as a paramedic to the World Trade Center attack. In the Dust Zone began as her story of being thrown across the great divide, into a world where the landscape, both inner and outer, is destroyed in an instant.
Slide show by novelist Maggie Dubris and artist Scott Gillis.
Yes
And then she would’ve told me everything I needed to know about how to become a successful adult. She would’ve taught me how to make people believe you love them, how to act as if things are okay when they are definitely not okay, and how to pretend you’re not dying inside. That last one, she would say as she leant towards me, her hot breath tickling my neck, is the most importantt. We would gulp down big glasses of wine and toast the future. And this would definitely change things.
By Victoria Hannan.