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Bonfire Night Black Peas

Now for something a little different: distracting myself from the world by writing about my favourite Autumnal tradition on Bonfire Night…

Nov 5, 2020

Bonfire Night Black Peas

Nov 5, 2020

“You sound like you’re sucking on a helium balloon.”

The title of this blog also happens to be a comment I received from a new contact I’d made through work and had been working with over…

Jul 21, 2020

“You sound like you’re sucking on a helium balloon.”

Jul 21, 2020

Ticking the boxes

I wrote this a couple of months as a submission for Issue 5 of the incredible Drawn Poorly Zine. Drawn Poorly is a Manchester-based…

Feb 18, 2020

Ticking the boxes

Feb 18, 2020

Abrasion

I wrote this essay-style post as a submission for a zine. It wasn’t quite the right fit for them but it’s a response to the theme of…

Feb 18, 2020

Feb 18, 2020

It’s a mixed bag | SICK ZINE

I was lucky enough to have a short submission to SICK ZINE accepted, see below for a scanned entry the full version of the entire zine…

Feb 18, 2020

It’s a mixed bag | SICK ZINE

Feb 18, 2020

Summer sunflowers

Feb 18, 2020

Feb 18, 2020

Mind the gap

In the same way our ‘shoulder bone is connected to the neck bone’ and our ‘neck bone is connected to the head bone,’ the physical symptoms…

Feb 18, 2020

Feb 18, 2020

Voice and identity

Feb 18, 2020

Feb 18, 2020

Neighbours as a meditation tool

Yes, they may be fictional and 10,538 miles away from me but the residents of Ramsay Street are ‘good neighbours and good friends’ to me…

Feb 18, 2020

Feb 18, 2020

House of cards

I think I’ve only ever tried to build a house of cards, or even a two storey small pyramid of cards when I’ve been somewhere pretty grey…

Feb 18, 2020

Feb 18, 2020

Olivia O'Sullivan

Olivia O'Sullivan

Writing about living with tracheomalacia (a floppy airway), chronic illness and the NHS. Interested in sharing stories and reading even more.

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