When victory as an adult, has no audience

I ask you to bear witness

Over the summer break, I pitched a few stories to various news outlets. On reflection, perhaps they were right to ignore one of the ideas I sent through and pretend they had not read it. You know you’ve got a stinker when there is no effort made to sculpt a story or add elements that might make it richer. They were kind, and receptive to a couple of my …