While speculation in fiction sometimes turns out to be correct and sometimes not at all, it’s value is not in predicting the future as such. Rather, fiction can help us imagine things differently, to see our world, and our present, in a different light.
Sometimes Irene Carvalho wondered if she was brought into this world only to see herself fade.
While everyone around her went about their normal lives as mundane shapes and colours, she remained still, and somehow untouched by the moving of time...
I can smell burnt nerves
below my nose
in this dizziness, caused by a fire;
there is not enough air left for me here...
The world is a village now; social media connects us to every corner of the world, millennials work in multilingual environments and regularly holiday abroad. There's a huge generational gap when it comes to language.
Last July, something life-changing happened to me: my sister got a schnauzer. You’d think it wouldn’t affect me that much, since it’s not my dog, but no; I’d been waiting for that schnauzer quite as much as she had.
When I last wrote about wrestling for BTSB, I spoke about a burgeoning women’s revolution in the WWE. Since that article, several milestones have been broken but none, perhaps, as significant as the one that occurred on January 28th of this year.
I was definitely disheartened after years of trying to get an internship with my CV, which lacked Finnish studies and relevant job experience. To finally see all the hard work pay off feels great!
