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 Luke Allan
Ursula Cheng
 Carolyn Angelo
Tobias Cook
 Tom Benn
Kirsten Cowie
 Emily Bone
Andrew Denholm
 Sarah Christie
Elizabeth Stewart
 Jack Clark
Eileen Glass
 Edward Keeble
Imogen Scott
 Kerrick Newstead
Anette Fritsen
 Laura C-Harries
Lindsay Grime
 Daisy Dawes
Alison GlanvilleJones
 Sam Elliot
Laura Darling
 Martin Gaston
Gillian Kirkland
 Mary-Caitlin Hentz
Sarah Tanat-Jones
 Kirsty Kelly
Jaimie Lane
 Miranda Jackson
Trine Mangernes
 Ailish McA Green
Lindsay McBirnie
 Gina Mortlock
Lucy McCririck
 Richard O'Brien
Elizabeth Walker
 Vidur Nauriyal
Sophie Newell
 Sophie Playle
Marc Noble
 Kirsty Smellie
Fiona Purves
 Frankie Taylor
Genevieve Ryan
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"How can you be thinking of
her while you're with me?" Richard
erupts into a scream. "Philipa
doesn't know you like I do!"
And he runs off a stream of
information about myself that he's
collected and remembered over the
years: that I'm 28 although I pretend
I'm 26 sometimes; that I'm a teacher;
how I go jogging in the
morning to clear my head, and
because I'm too lazy to go to
the gym anymore; that I keep
saying I would love to have
children, but I haven't done
it yet, and haven't even made
my mind up about with who; how
the last thing I stole was
a wine glass from a party he
had taken me to because I
wanted a drink for the walk
home. And he continues until I
turn away from my reflection and
pull him close to me, holding
his struggling arms down until he
relaxes again, and I feel his
body turn limp and malleable. I
feel him give up. I tell him
I'll leave Philipa, I will,
I promise, I tell him, stroking
his hair. And I can see my
dull eyes in the mirror over
the back of Richard's shaking head,
'liar,' they shout at me. Because
Richard had once asked what
my favourite possession was, and I
had answered, 'A ring that belongs
to my mother,' but all I
thought of was Philipa: Philipa was
my favourite possession, I knew.
TEXT by Ailish McAlpine-Green
+ IMAGES by Lindsay Mcbirnie |
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