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  • DraftEssay

    Untitled

    Only you can see this. Updated today.

  • DraftDispatch 15

    What the power cut is for

    Ninety minutes of dark, and the particular honesty of a building that has stopped pretending.

    Only you can see this. Updated yesterday.

  • DraftEssay

    Notes on a border town

    Untitled, unfinished, and probably two essays.

    Only you can see this. Updated 2 days ago.

  • DraftComic

    The crossing

    Four frames on a junction nobody has ever agreed how to use.

    Only you can see this. Updated 3 days ago.

  • ApprovedEssay

    The century of the crowd

    Mass movements did not arrive with the internet. They arrived with the tram.

    Accepted. It goes live shortly. Updated 4 days ago.

  • DraftEssay

    A method for grief

    Working notes on whether mourning can be studied without being flattened.

    Only you can see this. Updated 6 days ago.

  • Changes requestedEssay

    What translation leaves behind

    Every translated sentence is a small act of loss, and occasionally of invention.

    An editor has asked for changes. Updated a week ago.

  • In reviewEssay

    The art of listening badly

    In praise of the distracted, partial, generous kind of attention.

    With an editor. You will hear back soon. Updated a week ago.

  • PublishedEssay

    Strangers by design

    The architecture of the modern city quietly decides who you will never meet.

    Live, and earning. Updated a month ago.

    Ksh 29,960

    2,996 reads

  • Not acceptedEssay

    Why the office will not die

    A contrarian case, made too late.

    Not accepted this time. Updated 2 months ago.

  • PublishedEssay

    What we owe to silence

    Noise is the texture of modern life, but clear thought needs the spaces between words.

    Live, and earning. Updated 2 months ago.

    Ksh 119,225

    4,769 reads

  • PublishedEssay

    Against the tyranny of goals

    A life organised entirely around targets may be a life that is never actually lived.

    Live, and earning. Updated 4 months ago.

    Ksh 275,160

    6,879 reads

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