topic; 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call Remembering September 11th 2001 takes me back to my student flat in Germany, my washing-up, my radio, droning in a language I -frustratingly- didn’t properly understand. Occasionally a fighter jet roars overhead. My memories feel like a dislocation from […]
topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call A 9/11 Piece After, similar words hung in the mouths of talkers. Each one like the others’ testimony; the day was uniquely bright and clear. My life had already turned partially, I had been waking earlier and was freshly […]
topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call 11 / 9 Where I come from the month comes after the day so when I see, hear or read 9/11 anywhere it makes me sad that America, the most insular country in the world, has such far reaching […]
topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call I was just waking up when the phone rang. A friend’s daughter was breathless on the other end of the line. Her parents had left for work moments earlier, and she was almost out the door for the school […]
topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call Journal Entry – September 14, 2001 I drove to Mailboxes, Etc. to send my contracts back by FedEx yesterday morning and was reminded that we live in a different world now. “Ma’am, you might as well save your money. […]
topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call The day terrorism crashed into the minds of Americans is still vivid in my head. I was in middle school at the time, and we received an announcement that a tragedy had occurred. We were herded to the auditorium […]
topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call New York to London It was just a normal office day, eating a sandwich at my desk ahead of a busy afternoon. ‘You seen this?’ Justin asked. I turned towards my colleague. ‘What?’ He had BBC News up on […]
topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call New York September 2001 And what do we now know? That “Godzilla movies” after all possessed a dark, portentous truth? That candlelight, acapella voices and a breeze lofting the flag can make you cry? That wrestling ghosts is […]
topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call Supporting her around the waist, I helped my Rebecca to the hotel toilet. A plastered, broken foot was the reason for her incapacity, the result of misaligned floorboards in a Tudor period hotel. While sober! My locum pharmacy work […]