Tag Archives: childhood

Adam Ford on life, superheroes, poetry, his Twitter novel and The Third Fruit is a Bird

Who is your favourite superhero and why?
I’d love to say it’s some less-well-known-to-the-general-public superhero like Machine Man or Metamorpho, but to be honest it’s a tie between Superman and Spider-Man, partly because their costumes are so striking and colourful, partly because they’re both nice-guy superheroes who always try to use their powers to help people [...]

Love, sex and intimacy with Krissy Kneen, author of Affection (a LiteraryMinded ‘responsive’ interview)

Affection: A Memoir of Love, Sex and Intimacy
Text Publishing
9781921520617
August (Australia)
Prompts: LiteraryMinded
Responses: Krissy Kneen
Things that are fast/things that are slow
Motorcycles.  Rollercoaster. Pick ups.  Orgasms.  All too fast.  Slow would be nice.  Slow is the ideal, something to aspire to.  It all ends too quickly.  Everything. And the people who have died.  People of my gene pool  [...]

I wanted to marry Michael Jackson

<– Little Ange with my first love on the wall.
The first short story I ever wrote, and read aloud, was called ‘Michael Jackson and the Magic Hat’. I was in Year 3. Besides the magic hat, there was mystery, romance and intrigue. My best friends in Year 3 – Genna and Rebecca – both messaged me [...]

The inability to relax (an experiment in the confessional)

It’s not often that I feel calm. I have supernovas going off in my head, squirmy things in my muscles and fingertips. I’m sore all the time because I exercise so much. It’s one of the only ways to expend the energy, wear me down, expend the effort effort effort. And I love the zing [...]