Sketches

By johnshade

Random fragments from my notebooks.

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Lament For a Lost Notebook

By johnshade on Sun, 06 Jan 2013

My little black book who travelled with me to Toronto and Cuba, who lay open on god knows how many beer stained bar tables in Munich while I scribbled out my alcoholic anguish…
Autobiography
Non-fiction
Certificate U

On the plane from Toronto to Vancouver

By johnshade on Wed, 15 Aug 2012

Mesmerised by modulating maps (damn Nabokov, your mischievous dust lay safely inert in the print of the tenth-hand copy of Transparent Things I picked up at a yard sale in Toronto, until I opened it a
Autobiography
Non-fiction
Certificate U
Cherry

What Are You Writing Daddy?

By johnshade on Sat, 23 Aug 2014

Nothing. Just a story. What's it about? Nothing really. Just a man in a taxi going to an airport. It's really boring. Let me hear it daddy. You want...
Non-fiction
Certificate U
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A Passenger Incident

By johnshade on Sat, 21 Feb 2015

Trains will be delayed on the Victoria line. This is due to a passenger incident at Highbury and Islington station. Customers are strongly advised to...
Other Non-fiction
Non-fiction
Certificate U
Gold cherry

A Postcard from Grenfell

By johnshade on Mon, 03 Jul 2017

A long conversation with a friend on the topic of recent tragedies and the gaping inequalities revealed therein inspired — or maybe required — me to...
Non-fiction
Certificate U
Cherry

Letter from Austria

By johnshade on Mon, 05 Mar 2018

What a comedy of humanness a ski slope is! That to enjoy the beautiful snow-clad Alps we have to cover them with giant people-hauling machines,...
Non-fiction
Certificate U
Gold cherry

Happy

By johnshade on Tue, 15 Oct 2019

His shadow fits him perfectly: shadow bike and shadow boy, seamlessly stitched to wheels rolling over Wimbledon common. Spoking backwards, monochrome...
Non-fiction
Certificate PG
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