There is a strange thing happening to our attention. Every day we consume hundreds of stories. We scroll past weddings, wars, recipes, political scandals, holidays, jokes and breaking news before breakfast. We watch entire television series in a weekend, skim headlines while waiting in the Lidl queue and flick through endless streams of content that [...]
Tag: fiction
One Day They’ll Stop Turning Treehouses Into Castles
The other day I looked out the kitchen window and saw my children dragging half the contents of the house across the garden. There were blankets. Cushions. A torch. Several teddy bears. A mixing bowl for reasons that were never fully explained. At one point I believe a broom was involved. They were building something. [...]