You serve me with a smile. You really like me. I have fennel tea. For you, every customer has to be reckoned with. There’s solitude at home and then there’s company at work. You’re bewildered by my choice. Do I want milk? I don’t. Do I want tap water? Yes. You want me to stay and [...]
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Day 93
Posted in Age: 21-30, Gender: Female, Location: Arts Venue, tagged city, conversations, creative writing, gemma seltzer, literature, london, One Hundred Days To Make Me A Better Person, strangers, tea, writing on March 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Day 84
Posted in Age: 31-40, Gender: Female, Location: Shop/Market, tagged city, conversations, creative writing, gemma seltzer, literature, london, One Hundred Days To Make Me A Better Person, strangers, tea, writing, yoghurt on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I am in a rush, I hear the sound of my footsteps, the wheezing of the automatic door opening, the selection of a basket, the apology from a small child and then the crinkle of packets. At the checkout, you have a yoghurt and a bottle of water and tell me you don’t like to [...]
Day 25
Posted in Age: 41-50, Gender: Female, Location: Arts Venue, tagged city, conversations, creative writing, literature, london, peppermint, prisons, strangers, tea, writing on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I trip over your chair, an embarrassing entrance, but it makes for an immediate introduction. We shake hands. You’re pleased to meet me. You describe things as wonderful or heartbreaking. Under the first agenda point, I volunteer a project idea. Pens scribbles and I write it down myself, to remember, to join in. You touch [...]
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