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everything else: june day
June 20, 2025
dear internet, a three-legged dog doesn't want to go home. she sits, tail wagging, while her owner tries to coax her, then another dog owner tries, dangling...
everything else: 27/03/2025, 15:29
March 29, 2025
dear internet, looking through frosted glass. going up the stairs on tiptoe. the part of the dream where you've figured out that you're dreaming but haven't...
everything else: three january days
January 13, 2025
dear internet, one: drink i cried in the shower thinking of a coffee my grandmother used to make. later i would joke to a friend about this, narrativizing it...
everything else: today co-star told me do: newsletters
December 16, 2024
dear internet, fortune cookie strips accumulating in the back of my phone, my hair the shortest it's ever been, and legs up on the kitchen windowsill, and...
everything else: november
November 26, 2024
dear internet, it snowed and then it didn’t, the ladder on the church spire returned to our horizon, and on the road a dachshund in a deep red sweater. i...
everything else: diptych
October 27, 2024
dear internet, i. in which i am notthe rain comes down and the smoke moves crossways against it. in the wind the white curtains sway gently: a butterfly’s...
everything else: nothing with nothing
August 28, 2024
dear internet, at work #1: a paper boat left on a table; unfolded, it becomes a shopping list in pink felt-tip (“kohlrabi 4x”, “tomaten mini”).fortune #1:...
everything else: put your hands up
August 8, 2024
dear internet, on valentine’s day eight years ago i saw the band stars in concert. it was my second time seeing them live—my first ever second time seeing a...
everything else: july
July 28, 2024
dear internet, like a home video, skittering, stop-start, somehow both sped up and slowed down. long stretches of the mundane, my laundry piling up and the...
everything else: june day
June 23, 2024
dear internet, my flatmate says, i don’t want to become the kind of person who always talks about the weather. she says this without weight or malice: we...
everything else: reported speech
June 10, 2024
dear internet, on a very hot day—the first truly warm day of the year, my hair heavy on the back of my neck—i walked past a woman saying, on the phone, no,...
everything else: inside my head
May 18, 2024
dear internet, it’s “i don’t believe people ever change but i’ve changed,” it’s “i’m the same, i’m the same, i’m trying to change,” it’s “people never change...
everything else: may letter
May 13, 2024
dear internet, my friends are doing the things my mother’s friends did thirty years ago, layering my hometown with full-circle familiarity. i am eating a...
everything else: april
April 27, 2024
dear internet, i teach my flatmate how to say thayir saadham. i pick up a notebook in order to press some lilacs, and it falls open to the page with the...
everything else: dull roots, spring rain
April 10, 2024
dear internet, i clean the bathroom drain, i reorganize my documents, i spray my windows with glass-cleaner. i unravel three months’ worth of knitting and...
everything else: march near-villanelle
March 30, 2024
dear internet, this month all my letters stayed in the notes app. march seventeenth: maybe i only want to change everything because spring is coming, maybe...
everything else: reflecting
February 22, 2024
dear internet, they leave mirrors on my street corners, and walking to the drugstore or from the supermarket i catch splintered glimpses of myself. on a...
everything else: it's me! hi!
February 20, 2024
dear internet, it's me, your friendly neighbourhood tiny letter. i have migrated to buttondown, and hopefully i continue to be in conversation with you and...
everything else: fourteen two twenty four
February 14, 2024
dear internet, valentine to the group chat, valentine to my abandoned knitting, valentine to the blue-tits in their nests, to the sound of a petal falling...
everything else: places
February 2, 2024
dear internet, january is the dress rehearsal, really: all of us so conscious of our lines, our marks, our audience. it's only february that the curtain...
everything else: building
January 18, 2024
dear internet, "if you build it, they will come" is a quote i know from screenshots floating around online of a movie called field of dreams, which i thought...
everything else: new leaves
January 11, 2024
dear internet, i'm looking at the seven tiny shoots in the tiny plant pot my flatmate got for advent, which i watered over christmas break, when they were...
everything else: 01.01.2024
January 1, 2024
dear internet, as i lay in bed with a coffee three strings of geese flew overhead, unseasonal. this time last year i was on a bus in spain making a promise...
everything else: sleave of care
December 28, 2023
dear internet, fhere are threethreethere there are three days left of to e year. i normally draft my letters in the notes app, but this time i am writing...
everything else: type of shit i've been on lately
December 20, 2023
dear internet, a song comes on in a restaurant and you know all the words. a song comes on in the supermarket and you know all the words, and so does the...
everything else: best of
December 14, 2023
dear internet, all the beauty and the bloodshed, asteroid city, fire of love, may december, showing up. masterpiece, woo, hearts & bones, can’t do much, deus...
everything else: now and then
December 9, 2023
dear internet, when i’m humming in the shower, when i’m watching the geese. when i hold my phone up to my ear on my walk home so i can listen to my friends...
everything else: wrapped
November 30, 2023
dear internet, yesterday i sent an email from mailchimp straight to my trash folder, and then i saw a tweet that made me run to retrieve it, and learnt that...
everything else: vignette would be a beautiful name for a baby girl
November 27, 2023
dear internet, my flatmate used to have st vincent's actor on vinyl and sometimes i’d hear it play in the living room while i was in my bedroom—sparse,...
everything else: like, like
November 19, 2023
dear internet, the first time i got covid i was living my sublet life, walking on tiptoe, feeling anxious and liminal; while i isolated in my room the year...
everything else: five dreams and a screenshot
November 4, 2023
dear internet, i’ve been dreaming of being back teaching again, standing in the corridor calling out to my students with familiar, exasperated fondness. or i...
everything else: ordinary unhappinesses
October 22, 2023
dear internet, as a preface to this letter: if you can, i hope you'll consider donating to medical aid for palestinians or other similar organisations. a...
everything else: book of days
October 6, 2023
dear internet, it is possible that i only know how to write about myself—and by myself i mean the weather, the neighbours, the child singing happy birthday...
everything else: cathedrals everywhere
September 21, 2023
dear internet, there’s a disease that’s killing my beloved city rabbits. there’s an inconsistent chill in the air, autumn faltering at the year’s doorstep....
everything else: swings and roundabouts
September 18, 2023
dear internet, it's easy to worry about things that you can't change, it's easy to chop garlic while listening to shadow by carly rae jepsen, it's the...
everything else: chaos and happenstance
September 11, 2023
dear internet, my phone camera stopped working, and then fixed itself—a few brief hours i spent walking by the lake, photographing wild blueberries and clear...
everything else: august, september
September 3, 2023
dear internet, there’s always something to miss: spring’s turn when i was away at a family wedding, or august’s second summer, the days bright and the skies...
everything else: notes to self
August 4, 2023
dear internet, tinyletter composed of sentences from misc. notes on my iphone 2021–2023: constancy of self is my favourite ritual. it starts off feeling...
everything else: august
August 2, 2023
dear internet, on rainy days i miss delhi, and on sundays i forget it is the weekend, and walking in and out of rooms i follow the german convention of...
everything else: july
July 23, 2023
dear internet, i open my windows to the rippling of birdsong. some days i open it to a baby’s crying, and some days to the club down the road playing dancing...
everything else: summer still
July 13, 2023
dear internet, at the entrance to the theatre space on the ground floor of our building, a small brown dog came up to me when i said hi. he jumped on...
everything else: june 25 (possibly again)
June 26, 2023
dear internet, i tried to send this yesterday but it doesn't seem to have worked, and just realised i'd titled it "june 26," which was not actually...
everything else: summerlines
June 20, 2023
dear internet, like folding laundry, smoothing the edges to make a neat pile. i try to remember where i was this time last summer and i think: ice cream,...
everything else: track changes
June 8, 2023
dear internet, “like a baptism,” said my flatmate, “but dirtier, and with ducks.” she was trying to convince me to swim in the canal, a narrow stretch of...
everything else: every perfect summer
June 3, 2023
dear internet, one summer i lay in bed reading bonjour tristesse. one summer i stretched across the faded yellow floral-patterned couch with white oleander,...
everything else: may
May 26, 2023
dear internet, lately i have enjoyed cleaning out my bathtub drain with an old toothbrush; and when i tried on a new perfume and ten minutes later was...
everything else: the year so far
April 30, 2023
dear internet, a&w, heaven or las vegas, amelia. xiao long bao. a green darker than light but lighter than olive. the rokeby venus. the baby being carried on...
everything else: another letter about spring
April 5, 2023
dear internet, “when did you become such a culture vulture?” my aunt said, when i looked at a modigliani and said, modigliani. she didn’t know i knew...
everything else: semester break
March 23, 2023
dear internet, i put my hand into my jacket pocket and found sugar crystals. the uncanny too-brightness of the sun shining through thick clouds makes me...
everything else: être en train
March 19, 2023
dear internet, the couple behind me are speaking in an eastern european language except when they say the word “shitpost”; the man playing when the saints go...
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