I’m fascinated with the idea of hybrid species, and I love imagining an animal that exists completely unbeknownst to us, fluttering around in the dark and unseen by human eyes, but all around us. Perhaps they are gathering up tiny scraps we’ve left behind or just resting for a moment …

‘It is sacred’, they say. And to end a marriage would be the biggest blasphemy. Because how dare you? How dare you question the sanctity of a bond as ‘pure’ as marriage, no matter how much it suffocates you? ‘Fix it’, they say. ‘Or just live with it’. Silently. Without …

1. Hashtag On the plus side, at least the newborn’s name is pronounceable. nkghough it seems too loony to be real, a mother has anointed her baby girl Hashtag Jameson. A hashtag denotes the number sign (#) on Twitter where it is used as a tagging device, both deliberately and …