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She plays as beautiful
Before battle she brushes her hair /a hundred strokes and sour breath/ Unfolds a vintage blue teal dress from...
Pack a suitcase
Pack a suitcase and find me. I'm here in rooms strewn with small purses of coins and stale cigarettes...
Snake eyes
HE INTRODUCED HIMSELF as a photographer when he'd pulled away from a group of men to tell her how...
Firebugs
I HATED JUDY'S first boyfriend, as expected. He was oddly shaped, like a sweet potato. His clothes were exactly...
Sound the alarm
THERE'S THE TUG of it in her stomach, always, a heavy thing. Sarah's hot, clammy like she knows she...
Up-skirt
A YOUNG WOMAN walks down the street towards an unremarkable terrace house wearing a fetching combination of op-shop style...
Morning song
THE WOMAN WHO stands on the door-step is short and chunky. Her legs are like an elephant's. They go...
Getting on with it
IT IS 1953. In Paris, Simone de Beauvoir launches the term 'women's liberation' in her groundbreaking The Second Sex,...
Taim bilong ol meri?
IN 1975, AS Papua New Guinea claimed its independence and imagined its future, officials set about commissioning a Parliament...
Is it hard to surf with boobs?
When she was reigning World Champion, Layne Beachley was also the female surfers' official representative. This meant that even on mornings she wasn't competing, she'd be on the beach at 5.30 am, the only woman, battling it out on behalf of the other female surfers. 'The female surfer representative has to be very strong willed,' says Beachley. 'I remember arguing constantly with the male surfer rep, the male head judge and the guys' sponsors, arguing about which conditions we were going to get.'
Risky business
NICKI IS ONE of my growing stable of female boxing students. She was wrapping her hands to begin a...
Top girl
'The best man in England.' Ronald Reagan on Margaret Thatcher'For £3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a...
