• Winnie Chau in The Delinquent

    – Three poems by Winnie Chau are now published in Issue #13 of The Delinquent. The poems are “the finger-biting girl” (pp.14-15), “two negatives make a negative” (p. 15) and “sorry, i googled you” (pp. 16-19). You can purchase a…

  • When the Rain Stops Falling at Almeida

    This post was originally written on 5th July, 2009. – Yesterday we spent an evening in Islington. It was a beautiful day and we sat by Regent’s Canal and had a drink from the Narrow Boat Pub (Beer in a…

  • A haunting story

    A woman is sitting at home alone, one Saturday morning just before midday, when, unexpectedly, a knock comes at the door. On opening the door she finds, much to her surprise, an old friend whom she has not seen for…

  • ASM 2010 BOOKLAUNCH AT Creative Macau – Macao Cultural Centre — Saturday 18th December 4.30 pm

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  • Redness with a bit of green

    This morning, my friend sent me this picture, a close-up of a phone booth by the river. – –

  • Already exciting

    Robert Raymer: “… after reading two of my stories, “Neighbours” from my website and “On Fridays” in Cha.” Read what is happening here. Robert Raymer’s short story “On Fridays” was published in Issue #12 of Cha. – ––

  • Nude and naked

    “In the 1950s, art historian Kenneth Clark distinguished between the terms ‘nude’ and ‘naked’. For him, ‘nakedness’ implies discomfort and embarrassment. Nudity meant not ‘a huddled and defenceless body, but … a balanced, prosperous and confident body: the body re-formed’.…

  • Nicolette Wong joins Negative Suck

    – Nicholette Wong has joined the editorial team of Negative Suck as Assistant PR Editor. Visit the publication here.––Nicolette Wong’s short stories were published in Issue #1 and Issue #6 of Cha.00

  • When did déjà vu begin?

    [More about Eadweard Muybridge here.] Nicholas Royle in The Uncanny (2003) answers: It is usually traced back to 1876, to a man called Boirac who wrote: ‘It has happened that, seeing for the first time a monument, a landscape, a person,…

  • Philippe Parreno at the Serpentine Gallery

    Last Saturday after a day in the city, we went to the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park to see an exhibition by the Paris-based French-Algerian artist Philippe Parreno (b. 1964). The exhibition has been getting a lot of attention for its…