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Life is not a pop video
Fiction Ally Chisholm Fiction Ally Chisholm

Life is not a pop video

We all want to be a snapshot from a pop video, an advertisement for modern life, a statement, a frozen moment in time, to be defined in a single image. It is the casually cliché, so complete, three-minute bursts, flashes and blurs of all the best bits.

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An Ode to Mark Wilson
Fiction Ally Chisholm Fiction Ally Chisholm

An Ode to Mark Wilson

The narrative within my family is that Mark brought me out of my shell and I brought him down to Earth. Sure, there was the occasional one wood to the eye or plastic airplane landing on my head, but those were the cuts and bruises of childhood.

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