Memoirous

The Machine Has No Clothes has been reprinted (again) by Coin-Operated , a zine project out of Scotland. About Coin-Operated: Coin-Operated Press CIC is an artist-led social enterprise run by Chloe Henderson. We are based in Scotland, where we facilitate creative workshops, host zine fairs, manage the DJCAD Zine Library, create educational zine content, and produce, publish, and distribute collaborative zines every month. This particular issue is all about Sustainable Fashion. We are celebrating Earth Day 2024 with this zine all about sustainable fashion: a movement that encompasses efforts within the fashion industry to reduce its environmental impacts, protect workers producing garments, and uphold animal welfare. In this zine, you will find floral dress designs, upcycled shoes, handmade boob bags, a how-to make-your-own patches tutorial, a rubbish song, a recycling project in Namibia, fashion collages, beautiful embroidery, and much much more! This listing is for the dig...

2024 is off to a fruitful start—yet not so much new writing from this writer. Pure of Heart came out in February in Fathom . A very sweet short story (14 min. read) about a simple girl, in terms applied from the past: a servant, who become ingrained into a family of middle-class means and how that relationship touches every member. I was inspired by Flaubert’s story "A Simple Heart". A few weeks ago my piece The Yellow House appeared in both the print and online journal Of Rust and Glass. After reading Rachel Cusk’s novel Second Place , I was inspired to attempt something similar. The brilliance of the novel was that it kept the reader guessing, I kept thinking something was going to happen, perhaps a murder or falling out, something to reward the reader for reading to the last page. But nothing. A kind of bait and switch, or just baiting. In the end people disappoint us, we’re disappointing, the narrative is quotidian.   Coin-Operated Press has accepted The Machine W...