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Pitch: Thames Symphony
Thames Symphony by Nicolas D. Sampson is a literary fiction novel with elements of London-focused psychogeography. On the one hand, it’s an immersive meditation –...
A Palm Tree Untrimmed
“Your neighbour is in clear violation,” the City Inspector says, snapping a photo of Arlo’s tree on the other side of the fence. “A palm...
How to Make Love to Fire
My wife will see the fire first. Or so she claims, whilst unfolding the picnic and arranging the cheese sandwiches and soft-boiled eggs. She asks...
Pepper
My hand gently cradles a chocolate habanero, I smile remembering the time you thought the name meant it was sweet. Your face flushed as your...
Touristed
“Professor Wen Ming, Professor Wen Ming!” He looked back, the key to his office door pausing mid-rotation. Lin, the department secretary, waved at him from...
Permeation
There are many moves with unlimited manoeuvres in chess. Before the opening gambit, it was known to us – Paula and me. Despite this, as...
What I Thought I Had
My father’s property sat at the end of the newly cut Dream Farm Road—a steep rutted track through uncut forest, bordered by the Point Reyes...
Smouldering
Zain squinted his eyes. The temperature was in the high nineties. The sky was clear but the air felt humid. He was short of breath,...
Issue 13: Fire
Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s 13th edition, on the theme of ‘fire.’ Fire: /ˈfʌɪə/ origin: Old English fȳr (noun), fȳrian...
Movement
“Murakami kind of ruined writing about jazz for everyone else,” said a friend, well, a boss really, but he feels like a friend. I’ll try....
In the Hall of Forbidding Signage
The Hall of Forbidding Signage, an exhibit in the Museum of Urban Life, was a memorial of warning plaques, notices, and placards, screwed on every...
The Woman Who Marries
The buildings had grown fangs, the street lamps whiskers. Billboards flocked to the skyline, pecked at star-scatter. Town cars beaked their way between gnarled claws...
A Dark Night
Night falls softly upon the land, warm and comforting like a childhood blanket, wrapping around her with an array of celestial freckles. The shade of...
With Grace
They’d gone on much longer than she’d expected them to. A quick bite had turned to two courses, a drink had turned to five, and...
Fishkids
This is the furthest I’ve ever been from the centre of Leicester. I was born there and haven’t moved since. We all know about the...
Cemetery Conversations with My Dead Dad
In 2019, I returned to London for the first time since 1990. I remembered the city vividly, both because I’d looked at the photos countless...
Mission Dolores Park: A Map Oneirica
My right fibula hurts when I walk as a Boricua in San Francisco, dreaming of the home I left. Nobody knows my name here, nor...
Dreams of Lost Buttresses
Night after night, a young climber dreams of a singular buttress, lit gold by sun, on the vanishing point of the horizon. Each time she...
Neighbours
I walk out of my building—a fifteen-year-old highrise—and greet the neighbour who hasn’t paid his maintenance dues since we moved in. I am surprised to...
Issue 12: Cities
Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s 12th edition. In this issue, we present work on the theme of ‘cities,’ whether in...
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