Shona Clingham

Segregation. Unnatural selection.

Immisceo.

Latin for: mix in, blend…

This is where the story begins.

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ABOUT ME

Weird, wacky. *WORD.

Female, 40s, mother, writer, artist.

Author of Immisceo and Blood’s Veil.

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Creating Space

The internet has created a space where we can be ourselves and yet I’m overwhelmed by how many of us don’t yet seem able to do this. There are so ...

Thoughts on Artificial Intelligence (AI)

I began using ChatGPT about two weeks ago. One of my first questions for AI was about AI. I have mostly favoured directness and I wanted to see for myself ...

Fragments and Deviations

An Observation and Personal Account of Neurodivergence and the complex links with deviance within a broken system. “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we ...
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21 Love Quotes from Literature

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine. Maya Angelou I love you as ...

50 of the Best Opening Lines in Fiction

Despite the warning not to ‘judge a book by its cover’, I'd bet we’ve all been guilty of it more than a few times. A cover is a window of ...

The Edge | On Mental Illness

I found myself at The Edge again. It’s that place you find yourself after battling with something larger than life to the point of giving in, lying back, and thinking: ...

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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF STORYTELLING

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Who am I? Who are any of us? We are all the sum of our experiences. Stories, lies, and beliefs: the things we are told, the things we learn, the things we tell ourselves. There comes a point where we might find ourselves needing to determine which statements are true at our core. Who would we be if circumstance had not dictated what choice we made? Who would we be if the choice someone else made for us had been different? How much of that is determined by the stories we carry with us? What is the significance of storytelling?