Category: Feeling Joyless

vice.com[1] — Photo by Jason Macdonald For years, the single girl has been suffering from a PR crisis, one that can be traced from Joan of Arc through Elizabeth I to the fourth series of Miranda. Sure, we’ve stopped being drowned as witches but, in 2015, female singledom isn’t exactly dripping with cachet, is it? It’s still “poor Jen”, it’s...

I’m in flight, I’m delirious, I’ve shed my urban chrysalis. Far below, on a vanishing horizon, the city retreats like a smudge, a fading bruise on the skin of the earth, the last trace of a disease. I look down on stately columns of cottony clouds, alabaster and ivory. Luminous in the sun, they make of me, they’d make of...