Maddy Bellucci
Devil-DHD
"Yes, there’s the whole fun-loving “I’m quirky” side to ADHD, but behind the veil of hyperactivity there’s also a lot of despondency and pain."
Dysfunctional parents = a kid’s BFF
'I can feel myself slowly metamorphose into a boy who cried “divorce!”'
Conundrums of an ungenerous oversharer
"It’s telling that we call them ‘stories’. The word ‘story’ says it all. Because it’s true, it is a story. No one really knows why you’re telling it, and neither do you, but you tell it anyway."
“I have a boyfriend”: A lie as old as time
I have a boyfriend.
Why do we say it? Because of the time-honoured strange conviction that the female 'no' actually, to all intents and purposes,...
La Vie en Rose: The new teacher
She entered with big doughy eyes and a welcoming self-effacing buzz-cut – making her seem above the superficial and the hair-possessing. She looks a...
La Vie en Rose: Monstres innocents
“Quelles bizarreries ne trouve-t-on pas dans une grande ville, quand on sait se promener et regarder ? La vie fourmille de monstres innocents.”
(“What oddities...
La Vie en Rose: Babysitting the strawberries
Nowadays there’s a lot of ‘main character’ talk. One woman who has not only understood the assignment, but puts to shame all other competing...
La Vie en Rose: New year, many me(s)
A couple days ago I went to see a Baudelaire exhibition, and as I meandered through colourful rooms full of poems about flowers and...
Bouncer’s rejection: it’s not you, it’s him.
But can you imagine sobbing uncontrollably like a Ninento-ridden child in front of 500 people? Christ. Could never be me…
Pret A Manger or Pret A Danger
Rumplestiltskin top-hatted men have permeated many of the daily accounts of my fellow female students.
Deconstructing ‘Hot Girl Summer’
Is Hot Girl Summer only Hot Girl Summer if the world and its wife are there to bear witness?